Ranieri Quotes

#1. Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Jane Hirshfield

#2. The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?" says one trader still at Salomon. "That's easy. Strauss wouldn't stoop to use the men's room on the trading floor. He'd go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.

Michael Lewis

#3. Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle

Claudio Ranieri

#4. You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

Claudio Ranieri

#5. The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

Stanley Hauerwas

#6. Bargaining. An utterly useless stage. Neither God nor the Universe ever bargained with anyone.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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

Claudio Ranieri

#8. The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

Claudio Ranieri

#9. In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Claudio Ranieri

#10. Do what you want, not what you think people want you to do.

Michelle A. Valentine

#11. When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

Liz Phair

#12. Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true

Claudio Ranieri

#13. From the beginning, when something was wrong I've been saying: 'Dilly-ding, dilly-dong, wake up, wake up!' So on Christmas Day I bought for all the players and all the staff a little bell. It was just a joke.

Claudio Ranieri

#14. We were very nervous at the start, we didn't play our game at all.

Claudio Ranieri

#15. If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

Claudio Ranieri

#16. I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Tom Waits