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Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball.
Author: , from an article in Rio de Janeiro’s Jornal dos Sports
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Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God’s. The sixth day is for football.
Author: Anthony Burgess
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The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
Author: Desmond Morris
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I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
Author: Eric Morecambe
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The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It’s the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
Author: George Graham, 1997
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I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
Author: George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
Author: J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928
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Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball.
Author: Jim Murray, 1967
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If you’re attacking, you don’t get as tired as when you’re chasing.
Author: Kyle Rote, Jr.
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In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.
Author: Luis Suarez
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All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There’s hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain’t got indoor plumbing, but that don’t mean there’s something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I’ve never seen a more boring sport.
Author: Mike Royko, 1994
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Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
Author: Ondino Viera
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.
Author: Paul Gardner
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Soccer is not about justice. It’s a drama – and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.
Author: Pete Davies
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The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does.
Author: Phil Woosnam, 1974
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The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.
Author: Sandy Strang
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A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.
Author: Soccer advertisement, published for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team, 1997
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Football is the opera of the people.
Author: Stafford Heginbotham, 1985
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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game…. In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Author: Stanley Rous, 1952
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