“He once said that before he was thirty, he had done everything on instinct. After thirty he began to understand why he did the things he did.”
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
“Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: “Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, ‘Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.’ ”71”
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
― The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
“A perpetual war,” Obama observed in May 2013, would “prove self-defeating, and alter our country in troubling ways.” A great tragedy of Obama’s presidency is that this insight did not guide his actions.”
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
― Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
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