Gaal Quotes & Sayings

A player you can buy in 24 hours, believe me. That's not a problem — Louis Van Gaal

Louis van Gaal has nothing more to learn. — Louis Van Gaal

It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world, makes me very proud. I have managed in games at Old Trafford before and know what an incredible arena Old Trafford is and how passionate and knowledgeable the fans are. This club has big ambitions; I too have big ambitions. Together I'm sure we will make history. — Louis Van Gaal

Manchester United? That's not an option. I am staying at Bayern Munich. Period. I had a great time under Van Gaal at Bayern, he has been very important for my career but I am very happy at my current club. — Arjen Robben

Through intentional, deliberate, strategic prayer, you grab hold of Jesus and of everything He's already done on your behalf. It's how you tap into the power of heaven and watch it reverberate in your experiences. It's — Priscilla Shirer

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football. — Louis Van Gaal

What Gaal was waiting for after the disappointment of the Jump was that first sight of Trantor. He haunted the View-room. The steel shutter-lids were rolled back at announced times and he was always there, watching the hard brilliance of the stars, enjoying the incredible hazy swarm of a star cluster, like a giant conglomeration of fireflies caught in mid-motion and stilled forever. At one time there was the cold, blue-white smoke of a gaseous nebula within five light years of the ship, spreading over the window like distant milk, filling the room with an icy tinge, and disappearing out of sight two hours later, after another Jump. — Isaac Asimov

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice. — Louis Van Gaal

Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United. — Louis Van Gaal

I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative. — Louis Van Gaal

I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players. — Louis Van Gaal

Find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're — Iris Johansen

My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world. — Louis Van Gaal

Passion is fleeting. Lust is momentary. Love is forever. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal. — Louis Van Gaal

I am a coach who thinks always in the long term. — Louis Van Gaal

He was what men called a religious man, which in his case meant he was a superstitious man. There was never a man less Christian; there was never one who made a greater show of piety. — Jean Plaidy

When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely. — Louis Van Gaal

Dostoevsky's authorial activity is evident in his extension of every contending point of view to its maximal force and depth, to the outside limits of plausibility. He strives to expose and develop all the semantic possibilities embedded in a given point of view (Chernyshevsky, as we have seen, strove for the same thing in his Pearl of Creation). This Dostoevsky knew how to do with extraordinary power. And this activity, the intensifying of someone else's thought, is possible only on the basis of a dialogic relationship to that other consciousness, that other point of view. We — Mikhail Bakhtin

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer. — Louis Van Gaal

When I buy, I buy players for the long term, not the short term because I do respect the club a lot and also the other clubs. — Louis Van Gaal