Ajax Quotes

• Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Powerful, Technology, Together

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• Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Important, Development, Importance

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• The only thing that I know about Feyenoord, is that they are from the country of Ajax

  Fabio Capello

  Country, Knows

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• When I was young, I dreamed of playing for Ajax and Arsenal. Both dreams have come true.

  Thomas Vermaelen

  Dream, Young, Arsenal

  "EXCLUSIVE: Vermaelen determined to repay Wenger's 'loyalty'". www.mirror.co.uk. April 21, 2012.

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• I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

  James A. Michener

  Horse, Children, War

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• A system depends on the players you have. I played 4-3-3 with Ajax, 2-3-2-3 with Barcelona and a 4-4-2 with AZ. I'm flexible. The philosophy stays the same though. I don't think that you can adapt it to every possible situation. You need the right mindset, and it depends on how the players see the coach and vice versa. The coach is the focal point of the team but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.

  Louis van Gaal

  Team, Philosophy, Player

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• If someone states that Ajax played a negative game then maybe we are smarter than Manchester City.

  Ronald Koeman

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• I'd have to say I enjoy myself a lot more, really. I don't feel so much responsibility as I did in other teams. It felt sometimes at Ajax and Liverpool that it had to be me. Now, every time I go out on to the pitch, I enjoy myself and laugh. I have gone through too many difficult times in my career and I don't want to keep thinking about them.

  Luis Suarez

  Team, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. 
  (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)

  Johan Cruijff

  Winning, League, Finals

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• Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Blow, Numbers

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 368

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• Leo [Messi] is the best player of all time - better than Pele, Maradona or Cruyff. There have been some great teams in history - Pele's Brazil, Cruyff's Ajax, Sacchi's Milan - but in the past 20 years this Barcelona team is the best.

  Xavi

  Team, Player, Past

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• At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of the rich interaction and responsiveness that Ajax applications can provide.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Lasts, Path, Months

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• It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

  Stephen Kinzer

  New York, Islamic, World

  "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror". Book by Stephen Kinzer, www.nytimes.com. 2003.

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• The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.

  Stephen Kinzer

  Powerful, Tyrants, Oil

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• Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Google, Investment, Approach

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• The prayer of Ajax was for light.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Prayer, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.40

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• Ajax the great Himself a host.

  Homer

  Greatness, Host

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• The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.

  Alexander Pope

  Light, Giving, Heaven

  Alexander Pope (1967). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.372, Lulu.com

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• I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

  Johan Cruijff

  Change, Football, Vision

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• We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.

  Toni Morrison

  Littles, Achilles, Dies

  "Toni Morrison: 'I want to feel what I feel. Even if it's not happiness'". Interview With Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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