Quotes About Dedication

He became as demanding of himself as he was with his players and staff but, in everything he did, he always made it a priority to explain why he was asking them to do something. He was always the first to arrive and the last to leave, working mornings and afternoons at the training ground. Every aspect of running the team had to be under his control: he demanded daily reports and updates from all his staff. Nothing was left to chance.

there are few pure footballing training sessions and there is a lot of co-existence and it isn't easy. But the lucky thing in this team is having found people with important human values.

Pep's do-or-die attitude from the sidelines (constantly correcting and signalling during games, treating every match as if it were the last, intensely focused on the job, passionate and occasionally over-exuberant) as well as his off-pitch behaviour (making the team eat together, scouting rival players and teams, unheard of at the time in the third division) suggested he was a leader, ready for management. Ready to lead at any level. Any team.

What you can't do is study the talks, learn them by heart. Two or three concepts are all you need . . . and then you have to put your heart into it. You can't deceive the players, they are too well prepared, intelligent, intuitive. I was a footballer and I know what I'm saying. In every talk, from that one in St Andrews to the last one, I have put my heart into them. And when I don't feel it, I don't speak, it's the best way.

I know that we have to start work quickly and intensively, whoever wants to be with us from the start will be welcomed. And the rest, we will win them over in the future.

He cleansed the dressing room of players who were uncommitted and oblivious of the club's core values: prioritising good football and hard work ahead of individual talent. Before they met for pre-season, Pep received messages from key players in the squad backing his bravery; the squad's leaders were effectively opening the door to the dressing room for him.

anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us would be who we are today.

wanted the fans to see that the team was going to work hard, run, play good football, and take pride in their work on the pitch.

On one occasion Guardiola explained that there are two types of coaches: those who think problems solve themselves and those who solve problems. Guardiola belongs to the group that seeks solutions. That is his real passion.

all of them, no matter how many times they won, carried around one commandment: 'I am in a huge club even in the hard times. I try not to betray the club's principles nor the idea of team play nor the legacy of my predecessors.

Con o sin éxito, crear se convierte en una adicción.

arte es en sí mismo y un gozo hacerlo. Los logros, los aplausos ayudan. Son la cereza en el pastel, no el pastel. El pastel es el trabajo diario.

Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness—cutting

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

He's washin' dishes and baby clothes,He's so ambitious he even sews.But don't forget, folks,That's what you get, folks,For makin' whoopee!

It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

The first thing I see is the obligation to serve peace.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

The ice-cold ritual baths of the Jews and Brahmins; the vigils of Buddha's disciples and of the Christian ascetics; the torments of Indian fakirs to keep from falling asleep—these are all nothing but external, crystallized rituals, which like broken columns bear witness to the seeker: "Here, very long ago, stood a mysterious temple dedicated to awakening.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

How numerous are the crowds that have heroically faced death for beliefs, ideas, and phrases that they scarcely understood!