Quotes About Control

Aussi terrible que puisse paraître, je pense que l'heure de notre mort est inscrite quelque part et qu'on ne peu rien faire pour y échapper.

ali strast je kao droga: u po?etku misliš da je kontrolišeš, a onda, jednog dana, moraš da priznaš da je ona ta koja upravlja tobom...

Wenn etwas geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht verhindern können; und wenn etwas nicht geschehen soll, wirst du es mit keiner Macht zuwege bringen. (Ramana Maharshi)

Le destin, ça n'existe pas, trancha froidement Shino. Le destin, c'est l'excuse de ceux qui ne veulent pas être responsables de leur vie.

L'argent est le thermomètre de la liberté

It is futile to deny the complexity of human emotions. Our lives are sometimes inscrutable, often disrupted by conflicting desires. Our lives are fragile, at once precious and insignificant, sometimes bathed in icy waters of loneliness, sometimes in the warm stream of a fountain of youth. Our lives, for the most part, are beyond our control.

Under Cruyff, dominating the ball became the first and most important rule. 'If you have the ball, the opposition doesn't have it and can't attack you,' Cruyff would repeat daily. So the job became finding the players who could keep possession and also doing a lot of positional work in training.

We have to be able to dominate the game, and make sure that we aren't dominated ourselves.

He wanted players who controlled the ball with their first touch, who had quick feet, who retained the ball and created superiority from individual technique and group work.

He said that if you pass the ball well, you receive it well and have good control; then you have far more possibilities.

Superiority in midfield, as predicted by Pep, was the key to the game.

He became as demanding of himself as he was with his players and staff but, in everything he did, he always made it a priority to explain why he was asking them to do something. He was always the first to arrive and the last to leave, working mornings and afternoons at the training ground. Every aspect of running the team had to be under his control: he demanded daily reports and updates from all his staff. Nothing was left to chance.

The ball runs faster than any human, so it's the ball that has to do the running!' which, in seventeen words, just about encapsulates his philosophy.

a passer of the ball positioned in front of the defence who could provide the platform from which every Barcelona attack would begin.

Secondly, you should be able to control the ball with one touch. If you needed another one, you were not one of the best players, just a good one. If you needed an extra touch, you were playing badly.

Regarding positional play, he insisted on making sure the player stayed in his corresponding area, especially when the ball was lost.

La palabra asusta al poder.

Alegabas que el amor se demostraba de muchas maneras. Los golpes, los gritos, los encierros, el terror no eran abuso, sino amorosas tácticas para sacar lo mejor de nosotros.

Mientras don Julio estaba en el jiji-jajá con los mentados representantes del secretario de Gobernación, saboreando exquisitos platillos provenzales en salsa de puterías, la policía alistaba una colección de dóbermans y de pastores belgas prestos a arrancarles los huevos a los reos.

Rage is never blind. Rage is uniquely focused.

In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy . . .

Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing—and to know the thing is to command it.

One must always name a weapon. You cannot trust that which you cannot call by name.

History is written by the victor.