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「偷」Our Favourite 60 Arsene Wenger Quotes

來自football365

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To commemorate the old boy’s 60th birthday…

1. [Upon being asked what he does with his spare time] "I watch football."
2. "I tried to watch the Tottenham match on television in my hotel yesterday, but I fell asleep."
3. "When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending. As for Tony Adams, I consider him to be a doctor of defence. He is simply outstanding."
4. [On the qualities of Dennis Bergkamp] "Intelligence and class. Class is of course, most of the time linked to what you can do with the ball, but the intelligence makes you use the technique in an efficient way. It’s like somebody who has a big vocabulary but he doesn’t say intelligent words, and somebody who has a big vocabulary but he can talk intelligently, and that’s what Dennis is all about. What he does, there’s always a head and always a brain. And his technique allows him to do what he sees, and what he decides to do."
5. [After the Arsenal fans booed a 1-1 draw with Middlesbrough in November 1998] "If you eat caviar every day it’s difficult to return to sausages."
6. "A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do."
7. "Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I’m a bit bored. I’m thinking: ‘Where is the intensity?’"
8. [In 2003] "It’s not impossible. I know it will be difficult for us to go through the season unbeaten. But if we keep the right attitude it’s possible we can do it."
9. [On Jose Mourinho after the then Chelsea boss accused him of being a voyeur] "He’s out of order, disconnected with reality and disrespectful. When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent."
10. "A football team is like a beautiful woman. When you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful."
11. [In response to Sepp Blatter's accusation that big clubs were guilty of 'child slavery] "If you have a child who is a good musician, what is your first reaction? It is to put them into a good music school, not in an average one. So why should that not happen in football?"
12. [After the departure of Sol Campbell to Portsmouth] "It is a big surprise to me because he cancelled his contract to go abroad. Have you sold Portsmouth to a foreign country?"
13. "I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. And football is like that. When I watch Barcelona, it is art."
14. "When you represent a club it’s about values and qualities, not about passports."
15. "If I go into a season and I say, ‘For fu*k’s sake, if we don’t win anything, they will all leave,’ I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best."
16. [After the success of the Great Britain team at the Olympics] "I didn’t know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven’t seen a swimming pool."
17. "The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid."
18. "There is no better psychological education than growing up in a pub when you are five or six because you meet all different people and hear how cruel they can be. You hear the way they talk to each other like saying ‘You’re a liar.’ And from an early age you get a practical psychological education into the minds of people."
19. "I started at 33 as a manager and sometimes I felt I wouldn’t survive. Physically I was sick."
20. "Politically, I am for efficiency. Economically first. Until the 1980s the world was divided into two, people were either communist or capitalist. The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable. You cannot ignore individual interests, but I believe the world evolves slowly. The last 30 years have brought a minimum amount of money for everybody in the west, the next step, politically, would be a maximum amount of money earned by everybody."
21. "As long as no-one scored, it was always going to be close."
22. "If I asked you who was the best team in the world you would say Brazil. And do they play good football? Yes. Which club won everything last year? Barcelona. Good football. I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?"
23. [In response to Sir Alex Ferguson's claim that he possessed the best team in the league despite Arsenal winning the title in 2002] "Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home."
24. "Ferguson should calm down. Maybe it would have been better if he had put us against a wall and shot us."
25. "He [Ferguson] doesn’t interest me and doesn’t matter to me at all. I will never answer to any provocation from him any more."
26. [To journalists regarding Ferguson] "What I don’t understand is that he does what he wants and you are all at his feet."
27. "Ferguson’s out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He’s pushed the cork in a bit far this time."
28. [Upon being asked if he had received the apology that Sir Alex had announced he had sent to Wenger] "No. Perhaps he sent it by horse."
29. "I’m ready to take the blame for all the problems of English football if that is what he wants."
30. [After Jose Royes announced he wanted to leave Arsenal] "It’s like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn’t want you. I can try to help you but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?"
31. "Despite the global warming, England is still not warm enough for him."
32. "Gerard Houllier’s thoughts on the matter [international football] echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you’re expected to be nice about it."
33. "Gerard is an open-minded and passionate man. I am the opposite: stubborn and stupid. But sometimes stupid behaviour makes you win."
34. "I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest."
35. [On losing the lead of the league in November 2004] "It’s like a child who is used to having ice cream whenever he wants. When it doesn’t come when he asks he tends to get confused and nervous."
36. "Any man who concentrates his energies totally on one passion is, by definition, someone who hurts the people close to him."
37. "We were considering him [Ruud van Nistelrooy] and Francis Jeffers and, in the end, we went for Jeffers."
38. "Maybe people will be surprised that I have signed an Englishman but I looked at his quality and not his passport. Francis is a ‘fox in the box’."
39. [On Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003] "He can only cheat."
40. "I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables."
41. "I lived for two years in Japan and it was the best diet I ever had. The whole way of life there is linked to health. Their diet is basically boiled vegetables, fish and rice. No fat, no sugar. You notice when you live there that there are no fat people."
42. "One of the things I discovered in Japan was from watching sumo wrestling. At the end you can never tell who has won the fight, and who has lost, because they do not show their emotion because it could embarrass the loser. It is unbelievable. That is why I try to teach my team politeness. It is only here in England that everybody pokes their tongue out when they win."
43. "What’s really dreadful is the diet in Britain. The whole day you drink tea with milk and coffee with milk and cakes. If you had a fantasy world of what you shouldn’t eat in sport, it’s what you eat here."
44. "If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."
45. [On Arsenal's recruitment policy] "If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from."
46. "I don’t kick dressing room doors or the cat or even football journalists."
47. "At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory."
48. "Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere."
49. "You have to be a masochist to be an international manager."
50. "For me, when you change more than three players in a team, you always take a technical risk because you change the deep structure of the team and the deep balance of the team, mentally and technically."
51. "We do not buy superstars. We make them."
52. "The real revelation of a player’s character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality."
53. [After Martin Taylor snapped Eduardo's leg in half] "The guy should never ever play football again."
54. [On how long Tomas Rosicky would be ruled out for at the start of his 18-month recuperation] "Days not weeks."
55. "I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you."
56. "We try to go a different way that, for me, is respectable. Briefly, these are the basics. I thought: "We are building a stadium, so I will get young players in early so I do not find myself exposed on the transfer market without the money to compete with the others. I build a team, and we compensate by creating a style of play, by creating a culture at the club because the boy comes in at 16 or 17 and when they go out they have a supplement of soul, of love for the club, because they have been educated together. The people you meet at college from 16 to 20, often those are the relationships in life that keep going. That, I think, will give us strength that other clubs will not have."
57. "What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football."
58. [On Emmanuel Adebayor's stamp on Robin van Persie] "I watched it when I got home and it looked very bad. You ask 100 people, 99 will say it’s very bad and the hundredth will be Mark Hughes."
59. "I did not see the incident."
60. "I do not like to make a fuss, it’ll just be another day. I want to stay 59."

Pete Gill

mac os x (safari)的字典與發音

使用mac os x的safari閱讀英文網站的文章，是一件會令人上癮的事。
首先，我能使用組合鍵「cmd(⌘)+ctrl+d」啟動字典程式，查詢任何在safari內被選取的單字，查詢結果如下：

此外，我還能使用另一個組合鍵，針對被選取的單字（甚至一大片文字段落）發音。由於這個組合鍵需要使用者自定，所以我必須到system preferences -> speech -> text to speech，點選「speak selected text when the key is pressed」，並定義我習慣的組合鍵。基於使用上的便利，我把它設定成「cmd(⌘)+ctrl+s」（這應該與其他組合鍵沒衝突）

dictionary

mac-dictionary-kit
http://code.google.com/p/mac-dictionary-kit/
Mac Dictionary Kit is a collection of tools to help convert and build
dictionaries on Mac OS X platform. The source dictionary could be in
any format, but we only support stardict format at present. The target dictionary must be Dictionary 2.0 format defined in Mac OS X 10.5.

dock

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO

家的五四三

已經好久沒在家好好的、專注的生活一陣子了。
這家，這家鄉，這土地－－馬六甲，乍看之下似乎（沒有？）改變很多。

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剛從倫敦回來，房間堆滿了一堆東西。那一個角落堆放著的，是前年從新加坡帶回來的，在另外一個角落，是更早時候從吉隆坡搬回來的，旁邊還放了一堆從北京帶回來的書籍與剪報，以及更久以前，從台灣運回來的一箱箱的書本。

更別說還有一大箱透過船運，正飄洋渡海，即將抵達家門的從英國收集回來的雜物。
我想，哪一天我搬了新家，一定得在房間釘上滿壁的大書櫥，把這些雜七雜八的書與物都放上去之後，中間一定要安置僅此一張，一坐下去就讓人感到懶洋洋的單人沙發，旁邊的茶几有一杯熱咖啡，和一支剛買回來的煙斗。

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整理書桌時，發現小表弟在抽屜角留下了一段警告，戒人不得隨意翻查私物，想來是一年前學校放假，他來我家短住時留下的傑作。字寫得斜斜歪歪，所謂「翻查私物」的懲罰，竟是「就吸他的血」，似是引人發笑為目的居多。我笑了一下，這才注意旁邊原來也有一段相似的文字，竟是我老弟留下來的！

那小表弟最是敬愛我老弟，這麼看來，這文字倒是臨摹多於警惕之用了。
書桌抽屜有二，這一邊整理完了，轉手就拉開另一個，這一下我真是大笑不止，一時間還笑出眼淚來。

那抽屜角也有一段語氣一模一樣，只是懲戒從「吸他的血」變成「斬他」的警告，署名的，正是我！
那時的我，才十三歲吧！
這書桌，跟了我們十八年了。

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抽屜內找到一個筆盒，我認得是當年到台北升學臨行前，在餐廳打短工認識的朋友相贈的，筆我到現在還留著，倒是盒子被老弟拿來收了一些我們的舊證件，看著相片中年幼的我們，心底泛起漣漪，回憶裡當然是歡樂的成份居多。

還有兩封舊信箋，說是寄給我的。毫無準備也沒有任何期待的翻閱，竟給嚇了一跳。
那又是因為我要到台北升學而寄來的信。第一封看字跡就知道是老朋友從台北林口捎來的長信，由於知道我快到台北了，信內把大小應注意事項據一提醒，實在不像真實中和我相處的那個不拘小節、直來直往的混蛋。更妙的是，還附了當年近照一張，我看了一眼，腦海裡就閃過太多當初大家在台北荒廢的荒唐歲月。歲月催人，老朋友最近才喜獲千金，昨天我才親自登門給他賀喜呢！

另一封更妙，由於我讀信有循序漸進的習慣，一時認不出字跡，還真不知是誰給我寫了這封信，又因為還沒讀到尾段署名處，一面讀下去，逕自玩起猜猜她是誰的遊戲。

她，現在都嫁做人婦，還生了一個好寶寶了。跟她倆倆不相聯絡也有好一段時間了，現在想起來，或許真的不是因為任何理由。
還是因為什麼理由？妳說，妳很開心看到我變得更自立了。除了祝福，妳還附了電郵，說我去了台北，大家還必須保持聯絡。

我實在應該給妳回封信的，我回了麼？對了，關於那本妳說從外國寄來，再三希望別抄錯地址而寄丟了的記事本，我真的沒收到。
但是這封信，原來我一直都收著。謝謝妳！

住在曼切斯特的老朋友

我的那位老朋友住在曼切斯特也好一段時間了。確確實實是多少年，我也不太記得，總之就是一段人會開始逐漸不願意接受任何改變的漫長歲月。當他從蘇格蘭來到曼切斯特的時候，曾經回過家鄉一趟，我們還見了面，但無論我是否說過總有一天會到這間他在英國安置的家寄宿的話，真正見到他的時候，心裡還是有些感慨：我還記得他昨天才來過我家，兩人一道對奕象棋；他還記得我母親、我小老弟、甚至我母親替人看護的小女孩。或許我應該驚訝於彼此的記憶力，但當我正要這麼想的時候，我才發現更令人驚訝的，是這些回憶起來像是昨天才發生的事情，已經是十多年前的舊事了。

我們天南地北聊了不少人事，一致認為大家都應該努力減去中年發的福，卻總是在一起大吃大喝，或許我們都長大（胖／老／成熟／？？）了很多，或許我們都跟從前一樣，從來也沒變過。

但是我不想去釐清這些問題，有很多我應該搞清楚的事情，我甚至連自己也不過問。

或許我所關心的是，能夠在旅程快要結束的時候，和老朋友見見面喝喝酒，聊一些平常都會聊的事情，真是一件讓人珍惜都來不及的快事。