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.
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Bill Shankly
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.
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Dave Barry
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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JeanPaul Sartre
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 bereft of spectators. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>At Wembley, shouts from the...
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Eduardo Galeano
More Quotes By John Leonard
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Popular culture is where we go to talk to and agree with one another; to simplify ourselves; to find our herd. It’s like going to the Automat to buy an emotion. The thrills are cheap and the payoffs predictable and, after a while, the repetition...
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
