“I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.” FirstsTwoChoicesProudEnglandManagersCaptains Author:John Terry
“You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?” KnowsDoneChoicesGamesWonderHavensFootballResearchPerformancesEnglandPressesDetailsManagersSoccerRanLove LifeSubstitutesLinksContemptChairman Author:Daniel Finkelstein
“In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. All of us, from the Governor of the Bank of England downwards, are now primarily interested in preserving the stability of business, prices, and employment, and are not likely, when the choice is forced on us, deliberately to sacrifice these to outworn dogma, which had its value once, of 3 pounds, 17 shill ings, 10 1/2 pence per ounce. Advocates of the ancient standard do not observe how remote it now is from the spirit and the requirements of the age. A regulated nonmetallic standard has slipped in unnoticed. It exists.” AgeSpiritValuesChoicesSacrificeStandardsGoldEnglandInvestingAncientEmploymentPoundsStabilityDogmaGovernorsRequirementsUnnoticedRelicsGold StandardShills Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion
“If I had the choice I would live in London. There are a few things I don't like about England but its just details, I don't really think about them but I really like England and I really like London.” IfsThinkingChoicesEnglandDetailsLondon Author:Emmanuel Petit
“My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted by a very hard decision. I do not think I could have arrived at my final choice unless I had continually kept before my eyes the vision of an endless line of children's coffins with weeping mothers behind them, both English and German, and another line of coffins of mothers with mourning children.” ThinkingWayChildrenHardEyeMotherChoicesRealizingLinesDecisionBehindsVisionEnglandFinalsEndlessMourningUnusualWeepingCoffinsHard Decision Author:Rudolf Hess