166 quotes found
“Some people think football [soccer] is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.”
“Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.”
“Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.”
“The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.”
“In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.”
“I crawled back to bed, knowing I was done for. Hours later, the phone in our room started ringing. It was George. He was not happy."Room 312. Now!" he shouted.Bouldy got up. I tried to pull myself ...”
“The StadiumHave you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is nothing less empty than an empty stadium. There is nothing less mute than stands ber...”
“We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they w...”
“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn g...”
“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he e...”
“As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but ...”
“Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.”
“My default button was set to self-destruct. It had been since birth.”
“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
“Okay then, were set he thought. Come and get it. The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didnt have a fucking clue.”
“Critics of soccer contend that the game inherently culminates in death and destruction. They argue that the game gives life to tribal identities which should be disappearing in a world where a Euro...”
“The eccentric passion of Shankly was underlined for me by my England team-mate Roger Hunt's version of the classic tale of the Liverpool manager's pre-game talk before playing Manchester United. Th...”
“There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians...”
“I love football. I love the aesthetics of football. I love the athleticism of football. I love the movement of the players, the antics of the coaches. I love the dynamism of the fans. I love their ...”
“In his mind progress was always to be measured in inches, especially when you didnt have yards or even feet of success to show off.”
