Quotes About Roman Abramovich

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

Roman Abramovich

#3. 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

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

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#5. In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

R.C. Sproul

#6. 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

#7. People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.

Ban Ki-moon

#8. 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

#9. When you're trying to achieve a goal, negative people will just bring you down. Surround yourself with the positive.

Dave Ramsey

#10. Investors have very short memories

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#11. I am not waiting. I am not waiting for anyone any more. It was me I was waiting for.

Priya Parmar

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

Roman Abramovich

#13. I still don't know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,

Randall Munroe

#14. There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Edmund Burke

#15. 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

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

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#17. 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

#18. It is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Don Marquis

#19. 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

#20. ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!

William Shakespeare

#21. And as she watches, she discovers that a dream creates a nonexistent intimacy, that one feels, all the next day after the dream, as though certain words have been said or actions taken which have not. So that the object of the dream feels familiar, when, in fact, no familiarity exists at all.

Anita Shreve

#22. One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Roman Abramovich

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

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#25. Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Thomas Steinbeck

#26. 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

#27. I originally wanted to be a singer, but I was average. I made 18 records, but none were that great. I was in a dance band at Bournemouth Pavilion for three years, and I played guitar too.

Tony Blackburn

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

Roman Abramovich

#29. Madison, Deborah. Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmer's Markets (New York: Broadway Books, 2002). Nabhan,

Michael Pollan

#30. The natural elements in the forests, mountains, deserts and large bodies of water, help shield you from the thought forms and auras of other human beings.

Frederick Lenz

#31. Nobody can cast themselves out.

Zadie Smith

#32. 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

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

Roman Abramovich

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

Roman Abramovich