Franz Beckenbauer Quotes

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

Franz Beckenbauer

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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Best
  • Ahead

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.

  

  C. Thomas Howell
  • Up
  • Age
  • Child

• You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Way
  • Where

• Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Gossip
  • Regrets
  • Bonding

• Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Donald Trump

• I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Love
  • American

• I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Never
  • Getting
  • Knew

• A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Game
  • Soccer
  • Entertainment

• Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Happy
  • Question

• They asked me to write it and zoomed me over there to do it. But they ended up sacking me.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Write
  • Asked
  • Sacking

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Family
  • Success
  • Pressure

• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Money
  • Government
  • Goal

• I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Believe
  • War
  • Want

• Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Great
  • Practice
  • Rules

• When a woman is frustrated, and it's your wife, you as the husband get that frustration.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Wife
  • Woman
  • Husband

• May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

  

  Ralph Thomas Walker
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Yoga

• I used to game a lot, and I used to game a little too hard.

  

  Jason Day
  • Game

• To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Spirit
  • Aristocracy
  • Feudal

• Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer