"I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve."

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Source : "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

Gordon Strachan

#Player Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guy Quotes

“Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration.”
“We're not taught to think in terms of needs. We don't make nice dead people when we're in touch with needs. Domination structures cannot maintain themselves when citizens are educated to be alive.”
“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, thatâ€™s like saying you can never change your fate.”

Source : "The Hundred Secret Senses". Book by Amy Tan, 1995.
“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”
“What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.”
“There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?”
“It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.”
“To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.”

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