Quotes About Fabio Capello

#1. I thought I would break the scoring record when I got to 40 goals by the age of 27 or 28, but then Fabio Capello took over and he never picked me again.

Michael Owen

#2. There's not much who would have hit him [Fabio Capello] in the eye and made him put his hat on.

Glenn Hoddle

#3. Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

Andy Townsend

#4. I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

John Terry

#5. I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

Fabio Capello

#6. For me, I always study the last games that have been played, not what happened in the past.

Fabio Capello

#7. There are some nights when everything goes your way and some when it doesn't, and this wasn't our game. I was most disappointed with our lack of aggression as that is normally one of our characteristics.

Fabio Capello

#8. In my entire life I have never seen a player of such quality and personality at such a young age, particularly wearing the 'heavy' shirt of one of the world's great clubs.

Fabio Capello

#9. If you're speaking of a fantasy player, then it has to be Leo Messi as he's so unpredictable. He's an absolute genius.

Fabio Capello

#10. Like [George] Best, there is a special fantasia about him

Fabio Capello

#11. There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Dwight L. Moody

#12. Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi is more of a genius than Cristiano. Cristiano is so strong physically, so powerful, but Messi has more creativity.

Fabio Capello

#13. We deserved to lose and it was a good result for us, considering the way we played in the second half.

Fabio Capello

#14. I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

Eli Roth

#15. Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable.

Fabio Capello

#16. I am very proud and honour-red to be the England manager.

Fabio Capello

#17. I have a contract and I refused a lot of opportunities to be the manager of important clubs because I want to stay here. I like this job. I like to be the England manager.

Fabio Capello

#18. I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

Fabio Capello

#19. We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

Fabio Capello

#20. The higher a tree wants to rise, the lower its roots must grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#21. Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#22. Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.

Fabio Capello

#23. If you want to score a goal, you have to hit the target.

Fabio Capello

#24. People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

Jonathan Frid

#25. When I was a player, I'd have a pre-match meal of the biggest lump of fillet steak you could find, followed by rice pudding. Other times I'd have a steak and kidney pie. I'd finish the meal at 12.30 and be playing two-and-a-half hours later.

Fabio Capello

#26. The only thing that I know about Feyenoord, is that they are from the country of Ajax

Fabio Capello

#27. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

Tom Robbins

#28. We have war when at least one of the partes to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#29. Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu

#30. Sometimes miracles happen. We have to be confident. We're convinced we can do something really exceptional.

Fabio Capello

#31. Every manager dreams of a job like this [the England job] and I will be sure to learn English within one month.

Fabio Capello

#32. I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.

Fabio Capello

#33. I'm happy with my language progress - the only difficulty when I tour Premier League matches is that different people talk to me in different accents - and sometimes I can hardly understand a word!

Fabio Capello

#34. When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership.
(on Thierry Henry)

Fabio Capello

#35. Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born.

Walter Russell