Sete Gibernau Quotes

You need continuity at clubs.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

I want to try to keep my life the same.

My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

Honestly, I am always shocked when I see myself in the mirror because I feel exactly the same as I did when I was 18 getting off the plane to go to Juilliard in New York.

There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

Things are more like today than they have ever been before.

The specifics of Cathy's and my life are different now, but the basic life challenges are exactly the same.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

People need islands of stability during periods of rapid change.

When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

… maintain the integrity and flexibility of our teachings

The times demand not a man bearing promises of new things, but a man who can finish the things begun...

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

It definitely helps when you play regularly instead of coming in and out of the team.

It is sometimes better to stay with the same team... for stability.

Continuity is very important for national teams.

Six years at Ajax and eight years at Tottenham, that reflects the way I want to be as a footballer, I like stability and that is what Benfica offered me and that was very important for me.

When I signed for Espanyol, all I was thinking about was that I needed continuity in the first division.