Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johan Cruijff

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Johan Cruijff

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

Johan Cruijff

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

Johan Cruijff

If you have the ball you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball you must make it as small as possible.

Johan Cruijff

When you play a match, it is statistically proven that players actually have the ball 3 minutes on average ... So, the most important thing is: what do you do during those 87 minutes when you do not have the ball. That is what determines wether you're a good player or not.

Johan Cruijff

Players that aren't true leaders but try to be, always bash other players after a mistake. True leaders on the pitch already assume others will make mistakes.

Johan Cruijff

Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

Johan Cruijff

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

Joel Madden

When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.

Joe Lando

There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

Joan Rivers

moving on is a gift you give yourself.

Jimmy Swaggart

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Garrett Hardin

You can never do merely one thing. The law applies to any action that changes something in a complex system. The point is that an action taken to alleviate a problem will trigger several effects, some of which may offset or even negate the one intended.

The difference between the two for me, fundamentally, is that the Senate and the governor want to do it the way it's always been done, and the House wants to see if there's a better way to do things, if there's a way to change the structure of how we provide services.

The difference between our show and the Spanish Riding School of Vienna is that ours is more entertainment-oriented. We have wardrobe changes, music changes and choreography changes over the years.

The director notified all employees that interim changes have been made to the FBI security program, including an expansion of the use of the polygraph to cover employees in sensitive areas.

John Prendergast

The diplomatic coalition should work for change in Zimbabwe,

Scott Peterson

The day I met Coach Thomas, I knew he was going to change my life.

A more consistent and verifiable method of lie detection could lead to changes in this particular realm of the legal system down the road.

Anwar Robinson

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

A name is just a name. We have to see what the new Sears Grand format will sell and at what price. We'll have to see what the changes are.

Analysts are worried about the next 12 hours; climate change is way too long-term for them.

John Milton

A mind not to be changed by place or time, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

A message there needs to be some changes in our justice system and a message that we need an effective national drug strategy.

All of these changes are part of having closer supervision from the regional Stop & Shop office, ... so the end result will be that the consumer will see a nicely run store.

Scott Young

All of the rules changes combined will make a huge difference. It will be a penalty-fest out there.

Scott Young

All of the rules changes combined will make a huge difference, ... It will be a penalty-fest out there.

Kevin Constantine

All the changes that were made I thought were good things. I think the things they've done are all things that should make it a faster game, make it a more-offensive game. Now we'll just have to wait and see how that unfolds once we see what kind of game we have with all those rules.

Paula Abdul

All the facts have been changed to get laughs at my expense. I hope you enjoy it.

All these guys have really come back at the right time. We haven't changed our offence or done anything differently.

And after the game, 'Whit' says, 'Why didn't you change that call?' And I thought, 'Man, this kid is on top of it,' ... That showed me something.

Casey Kasem

And for the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

Edward de Bono

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.