Reputation
Boban is well regarded in Croatia, ever since he made headlines by kicking a Yugoslav policeman who had attacked a Dinamo Zagreb supporter during an on pitch riot. He is known for his patriotism.
Croatia is the reason I live. I love my country as I love myself. I would die for Croatia.
— Zvonimir Boban, The Last Yugoslavian Football Team
As a commentator and pundit, Boban has become known as a frank and outspoken analyst. He also retains an interest in his old club, Milan, making his opinions well known about their progress. Most recently, he commented on Kaka's departure to Real Madrid FC, saying Kaka's apparent desire to stay at Milan was "false" and claiming that Milan were "in decline", having lost their strongest players.
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Famous quotes containing the word reputation:
“The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.”
—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
“Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)