Vahid Halilhodzic quotes

It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.
-- Vahid Halilhodzic

#Sports #Winning

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal critic—that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.

I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.

I Can't win the World Cup alone

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.