Randy Lerner quotes

“I have come to know well that fates are fickle in the business of English football. And I feel that I have pushed mine well past the limit.”
-- Randy Lerner

Source : "Paul Lambert to have crisis talks with Aston Villa owner, Randy Lerner" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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“I want a life of good sport, good people and the competition that goes with it.”
-- Randy Lerner

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“The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.”

“I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.”

“A child is a person who is going to carry on what you have started ... the fate of humanity is in his hands.”

“The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.”

“So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.”

Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.

“Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”

“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”

“I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute”