Rafael Van Der Vaart Quotes

#1. Understanding is not absolutely final.
What's now right could be wrong later.

Toba Beta

#2. I think it's important to know what you're going to do with the ball before it comes to you. So you're always thinking before hand and when the ball comes to you to can make the pass straight away.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#3. For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I've had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I'll never forget either feeling.

Ronaldinho

#4. One of my biggest role models was David Beckham because of how he performed on and off the pitch.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#5. Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

Jean De La Fontaine

#6. I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.

Stan Freberg

#7. You have to believe in yourself. Belief is one of the biggest things in football. If you believe you can win the Premier League then of course it can happen.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#8. I think you have to play your own game and sometimes people don't realise that the play-maker runs the most kilometres on the pitch!

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#9. Sorry is a callous inadequacy.

Sabaa Tahir

#10. He is the best passer of a ball in the world, and Real's style fits him.
(on David Beckham)

Ryan Giggs

#11. Its hard to pretend to love someone when you don't but its harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do..

Anonymous

#12. What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Adolf Hitler

#13. I've got an 'eckilectic' reading list.

George W. Bush

#14. The play-maker is the most difficult position because you have to always know where everyone is on the pitch.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#15. A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Irving Babbitt

#16. NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good paying American jobs. If I
didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement.

William J. Clinton

#17. If you start thinking about stats it can get too complicated and you just have to go out there and play your game.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#18. I can imagine playing in America.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#19. My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#20. Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#21. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."

"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.

Amanda Bouchet

#22. What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Archibald MacLeish

#23. Best football player I played against? I think Messi. He killed us.

Rafael Van Der Vaart

#24. Blue eyes held hers. "I have the oddest desire to learn what you want from life," he continued.

Suzanne Enoch

#25. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.

Rafael Van Der Vaart