Top 24 Jorge Valdano Quotes
#1. When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They're like turquoise gum drops.
Jo Treggiari
#2. Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.
Benazir Bhutto
#3. Every time I set foot on the Bernabeu turf I got the jitters, a kind of anxiety that takes hold of you the moment you step out into the glare of the floodlights.
Jorge Valdano
#4. You don't know what I mean. She is so strong, and you assume that strength has no end, no breaking point. You and Teleus are among the few she still trusts enough to love, and you say yes, she should have you tortured and killed. What were you thinking?
Megan Whalen Turner
#5. I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
Kate Winslet
#6. Only one answer will give a person the certain privilege, the joy, of entering heaven. Because I have believed in Jesus Christ and accepted Him as my Savior.
Billy Graham
#7. If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.
Socrates
#8. Poverty is good for nothing, except perhaps for football.
Jorge Valdano
#10. How to explain ... that the warning signs were so slight? That disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips?
Chris Cleave
#11. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.
Jorge Valdano
#12. I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better
Jorge Valdano
#13. I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
Anthony Hopkins
#14. What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.
Vivek Sahni
#16. Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.
Jorge Valdano
#17. Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree.
Jorge Valdano
#18. An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.
John Ashcroft
#19. Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
Liu Xiaobo
#20. The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'
Jorge Valdano
#22. Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
Gregory Benford
#23. My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.
Richard John Neuhaus
#24. You cannot play with Riquelme without playing for Riquelme.
Jorge Valdano
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