Top 8 Ivica Osim Quotes

You don't dig a new well if you have water in an old well. If we are going to build a team, we must build it around a group of experienced players.

Osim 1994, 1994: Mit Hannes Kartnig geht es bei Sturm Graz aufwärts.

In modern football all teams run and fight. Football needs to come back a little to be a game, if it is even coming back. If there is too much tactics, too much money, too much fight, maybe the people do not want to see it any more. Football is a game.

This sphere has enough problems as it is, and slowly we could start thinking about how we can live better together. I ask myself: Aren't they starting to get a headache from the constant warfare?

Normally, cultures don't fight. That is why they are cultures: because they do not wage wars.

Osim. Trainerlegende Ivica Osim ist tot, "Erfolgreich ist eine Mannschaft, wenn sie etwas bewegt, nicht aufgrund ihrer Pokale.". orf.at, 2022-05-01.

A team is successful when they make a difference, not because of their trophies.

Inevitably you start to loose ideas and authority. You don’t want to provoke crises, but you need problems so you can create solutions.