Bosque Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football. — Vicente Del Bosque

As with Cesc Fabregas, some players who go and play for foreign clubs improve on a cultural level. It makes them grow on many levels; intellectually, because you have to learn a new language and adapt to another culture, and on a footballing level too. — Vicente Del Bosque

Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement. — Vicente Del Bosque

Shakira is a talented singer, and I am a huge fan of her. — Bipasha Basu

Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct. — Vicente Del Bosque

The Confederations Cup is interesting. It served Spain very well to take part and then go on to win the 2010 World Cup. We knew the stadiums, the atmosphere, the conditions and also the difficulties of a tournament which simulated the World Cup format. — Vicente Del Bosque

If life transcends death, then I will seek for you there. If not, then there too. — James S.A. Corey

The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society. — Vicente Del Bosque

Introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness — Steve Martin

I think it is important to help our country's image outside of Spain. — Vicente Del Bosque

I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others. — Hugh Laurie

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates. — Vicente Del Bosque

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground. — Li Ka-shing

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour. — Vicente Del Bosque

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part. — Julian Of Norwich

What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance. — Andrea Cremer

I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side ... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist. — Vicente Del Bosque

As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated. — Andrea Cremer

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. — Wayne Dyer

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life. — Rob Brydon

Learning makes us all uncomfortable. — Dean Wesley Smith

If I were a player, I would like to be like Busquets. — Vicente Del Bosque

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create a new tangle, or transform it using an old trusty pattern. A Zentangle tile is meant to be a surprise that unfolds before the creator's eyes, one stroke at a time. — Beckah Krahula

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? — Orison Swett Marden

I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little. — Vicente Del Bosque

No one knows anything about economics. It's the great lie of the economists. By contrast in football people might have contrasting opinions, each of which has some validity. But the economists always speak in conditionals - what a mess. — Vicente Del Bosque

Messi or Ronaldo? I prefer Messi because he is more of a street player. — Vicente Del Bosque

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell. — Vicente Del Bosque

A leader is admired, a boss is feared. — Vicente Del Bosque

Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats. — Vicente Del Bosque

You watch the game, you don't see Busquets. You watch Busquets, you see the whole game. — Vicente Del Bosque

Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day. — Vicente Del Bosque