Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
-
Unknown
I’m a fake fact factory. The things I make are the things I make up. Also, as a side business, I make love. Actually, I just made that up.
-
Dora J. Arod
Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love...
-
Ayn Rand
To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
-
Richie Norton
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
-
Sheryl Sandberg
More Quotes By Simon Kuper
Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
