Vicente Del Bosque Quotes

#1. Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.

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#2. The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

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#3. Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.

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#4. that is real in our past is the love we gave and the love we received.

Marianne Williamson

#5. You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game.

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#6. I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.

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#7. I realize that nothing belongs to her any more and she belongs to everything. She

Markus Zusak

#8. Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.

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#9. The reading of good books could soothe human stupidity, the problem is that human stupidity does not like to read.

Carl William Brown

#10. To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

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#12. My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

Andrew Strauss

#13. The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format.

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#14. No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess.

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#15. Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player.

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#16. Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.

Herbert Marcuse

#17. I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain.

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#18. I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side ... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

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#19. Wine is for sharing. What's the fun of swirling, swishing, sloshing and yakking if my friends can't join in?

Jennifer Rosen

#20. Questioning the status quo can result in banishment, imprisonment, ridicule or being burned at the stake, depending on your era, your locale, and the sacred cows you wish to butcher.

Gene Spafford

#21. I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me.

Katrina Kaif

#22. I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

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#23. If I were a player, I would like to be like Busquets.

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#24. We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

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#25. Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.

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#26. The meaning of yoga is connection of mind, body and spirit. If you have a bad telecommunication system, your body gets sick. Yoga helps fix that.

Bikram Choudhury

#27. Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.

Stephen King

#28. We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

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#29. Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

Jamaica Kincaid

#30. There is no shame in impulse.

Douglas Coupland

#31. Interesting is when one can produce a picture that is pretty, but with undercurrents. The metaphor that comes to mind is in the poems of Robert Frost.

Jamie Wyeth

#32. Treat every connection, communication and collaboration as part of a continuous relationship.

Kim Chandler McDonald

#33. Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.

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#34. As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too.

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