Abramovich Quotes

#1. If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

Jose Mourinho

#2. One beautiful day, a radiant day, Mr Abramovich introduced himself to me and said I should put a shopping list together

Claudio Ranieri

#3. Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.

Roman Abramovich

#4. I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

Roman Abramovich

#5. Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

Sun Tzu

#6. Our strategy [at Chelsea] is to bring up our own players through the academy, which we have invested a lot in, and hope it gives results

Roman Abramovich

#7. How are the germs made into a ring? By adding and multiplying.

Roman Abramovich

#8. My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Roman Abramovich

#9. I was on the national Pentathlon team for a few years, but there was no funding for athletes in Canada. I was in a massive amount of personal debt at the age of 21, so I joined a little modelling and talent agency to get a some work, to do anything so that I didn't have to drop out of school.

Kris Holden-Ried

#10. To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: one eats carrots, one eats candy, both taste good. As a child you cannot tell the difference.

Roman Abramovich

#11. In my personal opinion, Russia is no less democratic than it used to be. It is a democratic country. It is democratic enough.

Roman Abramovich

#12. That he/she got there
before you
doesnt mean you wont get there.
it's just means YOU'RE COMING THERE
with a BIGGER CREW.

Emmanuel Aghado

#13. We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years

Roman Abramovich

#14. But charity is a very complicated thing. It's important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel the results. Charity is not like feeding pigeons in the square. It is a process that requires professional management.

Roman Abramovich

#15. Investors have very short memories

Roman Abramovich

#16. The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

Roman Abramovich

#17. I used to think ... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day.

John Key

#18. We'll only use as much category theory as is necessary. Famous last words ...

Roman Abramovich

#19. I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

Roman Abramovich

#20. In Moscow I feel most comfortable. I'm used to four different seasons; it's difficult for people in London to understand. People brought up in Russia like my kids want to play in the snow.

Roman Abramovich

#21. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.

Dayna S. Rubin

#22. A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

David Lynch

#23. I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

Roman Abramovich

#24. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#25. If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.

Roman Abramovich

#26. I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this.

Roman Abramovich

#27. I'm realising my dream of owning a top football club. Some will doubt my motives, others will think I'm crazy.

Roman Abramovich