George Weah
George Weah
George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah is a Liberian humanitarian, politician, and retired footballer who played as a striker. Regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time, and as one of the best forwards of his generation, in 1995 he was named FIFA World Player of the Year and won the Ballon d'Or, becoming the first African player to win these awards. In 1989, 1994 and 1995 he was named the African Footballer of the Year, and...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth1 October 1966
CityMonrovia, Liberia
George Weah quotes about
peace eye names
I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.
football taken opportunity
Football has been good to me. Everyone has their destiny, but you have to make use of the opportunities. I have spent 15 years at the top of my game. It makes me happy. I love the game. I love scoring goals. But I have always taken it seriously. It is not what the game gives you, it is what you give it.
pedals process ifs
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
selfish successful thinking
I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, 'Look, I have a comfortable life,' and I... just think about myself, I don't think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.
victory president election
I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.
fighting causes noble
My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.
intelligent world wells
I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.
praying unification stability
I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.
successful
I am always successful in my work.
christmas father grandmother
My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
growing-up school pay
When I was growing up in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, I sold doughnuts, popcorn and Kool Aid every day after school so that my family had some money and I could pay my school fees. It was a tough life.