Carles Puyol Quotes

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

There are some aspects of work you need to keep working on and no matter what environment you are in. Continuous learning is very important. It's what I call 'competitive tension', which is about having a competition around.

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

The thing I can tell you about coaching is that we make decision and career moves when your nerves and emotions are still raw, right after the season. It's the worst profession for that.

I wasn't ready to manage straight away. You have a few players who stopped and managed a first team straight away and were successful, and then there are the other ones who take different pathways. And I think what was important for me was to understand what I really wanted to do.

All I've ever wanted is to improve myself and become the best, which is the reason I joined Real in the first place.

When you seek to do something, if you don't know the whole game plan, you're usually going to work against yourself.

The longer I've gone on in coaching, the more I take everything as information and not as much emotional.

I needed to focus on what is good for my career long-term and when you decide to do something - you stay true to yourself.

I think when you have kids, it definitely makes you look at things from a different perspective, but I think that the biggest thing it's done is it's made me look at things from a different perspective from a professional standpoint in how you analyze things and how you look at things and how you react to things.

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.

I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

At the end of the day, you can decide whether you want to be an employee with a great attendance record, getting promoted to ever better titles and working on interesting projects - or whether you want to attempt to do something spectacular - this be or do should be a question you never stop asking yourself - for the next 20 years, and beyond.

Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences.