Goran Quotes & Sayings

If you cannot change, why you expect others to change? — Goran Spasa

The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. — Goran Persson

I have so many runner-up cups that I am thinking of starting my own tea shop. — Goran Ivanisevic

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique. — Goran Persson

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore. — Goran Ivanisevic

The battlefields where the dice of world history have been thrown can never be ordinary fields again and no god from a vanished civilization is so dead that he does not live on in his ruined temple. — Goran Schildt

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit. — Goran Ivanisevic

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. — Goran Persson

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it. — Goran Visnjic

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself. — Goran Ivanisevic

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

When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose. — Goran Ivanisevic

My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour. — Goran Ivanisevic

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

My greatest crush was Chandler from 'Friends.' And Goran Ivanisevic. — Miranda Hart

I am quite sure they are a little bit angry, they want revenge. I think they've wanted that since Monday morning. They look forward to the game, they've been waiting several days now so the players will react very well. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system. — Goran Ivanisevic

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present. — Aberjhani

It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job! — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Making my English better is a hard job, a slow job. But it's getting better. Three years ago it would have taken me a half hour to say this sentence. — Goran Visnjic

Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets. — Goran Ivanisevic

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid. — Goran Ivanisevic

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.' — Goran Ivanisevic

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. — Goran Ivanisevic

My tattoo is a cross, a rose and a shark. A cross is a cross, a rose like love and a shark is a pretty tough animal. — Goran Ivanisevic

The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself. — Goran Ivanisevic

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone. — Goran Persson

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

It's great, but there is one problem. She doesn't sleep. At night she seems to turn into a vampire. She wakes up every night five or 10 times, asking for things, singing, calling out. — Goran Ivanisevic

Despite [] promises, I am concerned that there has been no discernible progress in the case. Equally concerning is the fact that Goran Radosavljevic, the commander of the facility where the Bytyqi's were murdered, remains a close advisor to the current government ... I call upon the Serbian government to also aspire to new heights in its own processing of war crimes from the 1990's and to finally ensure justice in the Bytyqi case. — Lee Zeldin

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. — Goran Persson

Scholes was England's best football player. It was impossible to take the ball from him, and he never mishit a pass. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon. — Goran Ivanisevic

After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring. — Goran Ivanisevic

His thirst was as tall as he was and more the man. It walked alone and was the only real life in the wind-weary February night. — Lester Goran

There are not many Irish people playing tennis! — Goran Ivanisevic

Ivan Lendl's never going to be a great player on grass. The only time he comes to the net is to shake your hand. — Goran Ivanisevic

The only real failure in life is the failure to try. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country. — Goran Visnjic

When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment. — Goran Ivanisevic

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence. — Goran Ivanisevic

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football. — Goran Ivanisevic

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation. — Goran Ivanisevic

Be knowledgeable, but not realistic! — Goran Spasa

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller. — Goran Visnjic

I've always said Crouch is special. He's tall and that makes him special but he is special because he has good feet as well — Sven-Goran Eriksson

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment. Advancing beside Archer, I am resplendent in my savage finery of seized power. In my service charge the collected blackguards of a dozen tyrants now dispatched to a lesser oblivion. My fingers, stained crimson with the blood of despots, are not the fingers which paged through the paper lives of helpless romantic heroines. No more am I a passive damsel who waits for circumstance to decide her fate; now have I become the scalawag, the swashbuckler, the Heathcliff of my dreams bent on rescuing myself. For now do I embody all the traits I had so hoped to find in Goran. Meaning: No longer am I limited. — Chuck Palahniuk

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast. — Goran Ivanisevic

[On England's elimination from the 2002 World Cup after losing 2-1 to Brazil] Never was Steven Gerrard more noticeably missed, for his ability to pass, rather than kick the ball over 40 yards and for his steely mentality. Not for the first time, Eriksson's substitutions were baffling. The situation cried for Joe Cole, the one England player with a trick to beat a man, but it was the convalescent Kieron Dyer who was sent on, in place of Sinclair. Owen, never fully fit, was withdrawn after 80 minutes, at which stage Eriksson sent on Darius Vassell and Teddy Sheringham in a move which smacked of desperation, rather than tactical nous. From Sven-Goran Eriksson: The Final Reckoning — Joe Lovejoy

I don't understand the word 'hunk.' — Goran Visnjic

Acting is my job. — Goran Visnjic

I don't care now if I ever win a match in my life again. Whatever I do in my life, wherever I go, I'm going to be always Wimbledon champion. — Goran Ivanisevic

Lately, my mind is like an orchestra. If you don't have the conductor, you don't know what to do. One guy is playing jazz, one guy is playing rock and roll, another classical. It's a big mess. — Goran Ivanisevic

He has many qualities as a prince, but he is not a surgeon. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

We must make working life more human. — Goran Persson

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers. — Goran Visnjic

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency. - George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling. — George W. Bush

We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance. — Goran Persson

You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

When I started in my career, my sister was very sick so I play for her because we didn't have money. — Goran Ivanisevic

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson. — Gordon Strachan

I still break racquets, but now I do it in a positive way. — Goran Ivanisevic

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake. — Goran Ivanisevic

He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things to set up other people; he could shoot and he could score goals. If you gave me Paul Scholes and ten others, I would be happy. I would tell them to give him the ball and then we would have a good team. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him. — Goran Ivanisevic

Do not fight for your rights on streets. Do it elegantly within you! — Goran Spasa

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries. — Goran Ivanisevic

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe. — Goran Persson

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. — Goran Persson

We need goals when the scoreline is zero zero — Sven-Goran Eriksson

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us. — Goran Ivanisevic

To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money! — Sven-Goran Eriksson