Karol Dobiaš

"Then, after a couple years - I was no longer eighteen but rather twenty-five - we'd always go to a bar. We had some drinks and then at 3 or 4 a.m. returned back home. At 9 or 10, there was a training. We were young, our combustion worked well, and so we didn't mind. Two pairs of trousers, a beer to get ourselves back in shape and we carried on."

"Of course, every title was good for one simple reason - it had a financial effect. Back then, they paid us five thousand crowns for the title. At the time, that was big money. It meant that when I won four home matches, I got four thousand crowns. One thousand for each. I even received eight hundred crowns to cover my food expenses, for training. This was provided by the football club. Altogether, my monthly allowance was eight and a half thousand crowns. At that time, that was huge money because a factory director got three thousand or three thousand five hundred crowns. Back in the Trnava era, this is the money I've gotten plus some five thousand for the title. Today, people get two, three, four million for a title. We've had five thousand."