people-from-norway

"Football is about feeling good."

"I am ready, born ready. Always."

"This whole project is about creating a culture. Sky's the limit."

"There's maybe a one or two percent chance, but there is a chance. That's the thing."

"The margins between winning and losing in football are so close. It is better to be lucky than good sometimes."

"Everyone knows you need continuity and patience to get success, but not too many get it."

"People can resist change at times, but change is important if you want to go forward."

"To understand the people, you need to know the history."

"It’s not just about being a nice guy, we need to set the standards higher."

"I’m a people-person; I use the human capital around me."

"I am a coach who likes to win despite things, not because of them."

"I’m one of them who looks back at the lows more than the highs."

"Pressure is a privilege."

"Yeah, what a night. That’s probably the first night that these boys experienced what Man United is really about."

"I’d rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right."

"Whatever little decision you make has a consequence on the next."

"To work hard costs absolutely nothing."

"I'm quite strong and strict on discipline and fitness because it doesn't cost anything to be the fittest version of yourself."

"Sometimes there are players who you have to praise and cajole but there are other players who need stick more than praise because they can get complacent and lose their concentration."

"I don't think anyone can perform at their best level if they are unhappy. This is not playing Football Manager on the computer. We are dealing with human beings."

"Sometimes, a cup competition can hide the fact that you’re still struggling."

"The secret is to be confident enough to trust yourself all the time but also humble enough to work hard."

"It's a fine balance between being humble and quietly confident, believing in yourself enough."

"To be able to want to improve and constantly learn lessons takes a degree of humility. Still, the whole point of following whatever path in life we choose to is because we feel confident in doing that."

"No tree grows in heaven."

"Rome wasn't built in a day, everything takes time."

"I love working on more intimate indie sets just as much as on the big budget show. They are very different beasts but it’s the passion for the project that makes the experiences amazing, and the talents you get to work with."

"I like the idea of an international career, it appeals to me on a personal level. Absorbing different cultures make you a better actor. It makes you very ambiguous, which is how I describe myself."

"History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before. It may seem strange to be adding an 'X' but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests. We want to see 'plug and play' platforms developed which will work for any, or a wide number of diseases; systems that will allow us to create countermeasures at speed. [...] As the ecosystem and human habitats change there is always the risk of disease jumping from animals to humans. It’s a natural process and it is vital that we are aware and prepare. It is probably the greatest risk."

"[I]f you want to live like a Norwegian, buy a plane ticket."

"I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person."

"The chess world is officially a joke. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE IN HISTORY. I can’t believe that the official body of chess is being controlled by a singular player FOR THE 2ND TIME THIS WEEK. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE WORLD CHAMPION!"

"In six months of working with Magnus I have seen in him many of the qualities of the great champions. – Garry Kasparov"

"You could say that both Fischer and Carlsen had or have the ability to let chess look simple. – Viswanathan Anand"

"They can enforce their rules, that's fine by me [...] my response is that fine, then I'm out, like, fuck you."

"Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to. I stand by that."

"Honestly, I'm too old at this point to care too much. If this is what [the FIDE wants] to do [...] It's fine by me [...] [I'll] probably head off to somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer than here."

"I said, ‘I'll change tomorrow if that's okay, I just didn't even realize it today,’ but they said, ‘Well, you have to change now,’ and, well, at that point it became, you know, a bit of a matter of principle for me. [...] And yeah, so here we are."

"I'm certainly somebody who hopes for more 960 in classical format because I feel like 960 is not that suited to rapid and blitz because you're just gonna play too poorly. You're just gonna have absolutely no clue, but if you actually have time to sit down and think for half an hour on your first five moves, then maybe you can get some more understanding of the game."

"I think in general the future of classical chess as it is now is a little bit dubious. I would love to see more Fischer [Random] Chess being played over-the-board in a classical format. That would be very interesting to me, because I feel that that particular format is pretty well suited to classical chess as basically you need a lot of time in order to be able to play the game even remotely decently. And you can see that in the way that Fischer [Random] Chess is being played now when it is played in a rapid format. The quality of the games isn't very high because we make such fundamental mistakes in the opening. We don't understand it nearly enough and I think that would increase a lot if we were given a classical time control there. So I would definitely hope for that."

"When did I understand it was a draw? I understood it immediately. That doesn't mean you shouldn't play."

"The best way to deal with losing is not to lose."

"He played the Berlin, I played the most solid line, yada yada yada, let's go to the doping control."

"I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games."

"I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly."

"I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle."

"Every day we started fighting. Every night we fell in love. No one else could make me sadder. But no one else could lift me high above."

"Your boyfriends might be angry, my girlfriends might be blue. But no one can deny it, from now on I love you."

"Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day."

"People call me stupid for treating you like a queen, but I dont even worry `cause you`re my unforeseen. And I hope that you`ll be with me, if only in my dreams. But here you are next to me and you`re glad, or so it seems."