Rinus Michels quotes

“Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.”
-- Rinus Michels

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“It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.”
-- Rinus Michels

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“My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found”
-- Rinus Michels

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“Football is business and business is business.”
-- Rinus Michels

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“The accent in the counter attack style of play lays on the defensive team function, with the emphasis being on the defender's own half of the field and letting the opponents keep the initiative of the game. This is to take advantage of the space behind their defense for the buildup and the attack.”
-- Rinus Michels

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“My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found”
-- Rinus Michels

#Soccer Quotes #Educational Quotes #Natural Quotes

“It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.”

“He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.”

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

“To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is always enmity against poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally.”

“We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.”

Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.”

“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”

“When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

“A recession is when you have to tighten your belt; depression is when you have no belt to tighten. When you've lost your trousers - you're in the airline business.”

“The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision...”