Johan Cruyff Quotes

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

That's too coincidental to be a coincidence.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

There is always room for coincidence.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Is anything accidental?

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

I don't believe in coincidence.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Every single moment is a coincidence.