Fabio Capello Quotes

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

If you insist on being determined by the past that's your game, but the fact of the matter is it all starts right now.

You know, my music utilizes things from the past, because that's what the past is for. It's to learn from. It's not to limit you, you shouldn't be limited by it.

It was a crazy game. We could have scored five...oh right, we did score five, but we could have scored six, seven or eight.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

I always try to take from past performances. You never try to get too high or too low. Just play every game, just treat every game like it's the same.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

To avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

By strictly observing Botvinnik's rule regarding the thorough analysis of one's own games, with the years I have come to realize that this provides the foundation for the continuous development of chess mastery.

A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!