Rehhagel's Quotes

#1. Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time they knew what Otto Rehhagel's team were about, it was too late. Great football is like great comedy in that way. It is all in the timing.

Martin Samuel

#2. I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Lewis Wolpert

#3. When I'm writing, I write every day. It's lovely when that's happening. One day dovetailing into the next. Sometimes I don't even know what day of the week it is.

Raymond Carver

#4. Every match in the Euro is a dance on a razor's edge.

Otto Rehhagel

#5. A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take ... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

Otto Rehhagel

#6. When I arrived the players were talented, but did not obey the rules ... Once they understood what they needed to, they could express themselves.

Otto Rehhagel

#7. When someone is hard on you it may have very little to do with you.

Bryant McGill

#8. ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.

Robin Wayne Bailey

#9. Janvier watched Ashwini stride away, her hips moving provocatively beneath the snug fit of her jeans. "Take care of her," he said quietly to his friend. "She is my eternity, Louis.

Nalini Singh

#10. There are no right or wrong, or fair results. There's just the final score.

Otto Rehhagel

#11. A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Sometimes, you lose (a game) and sometimes the other team wins.

Otto Rehhagel

#13. A Consultant is a guy who knows 125 different ways to make love, but who doesn't know any women.

Mark Russell

#14. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

#15. I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

John Updike

#16. It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

Otto Rehhagel

#17. Because sometimes, you have to fight for someone even when they're not in the game.

Libby Kirsch

#18. For a long while, I was really against Twitter. I mean, who cares if I'm in an airport or had broccoli for dinner?

Shantel VanSanten

#19. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

Henry David Thoreau