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Anthony Burgess
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.
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Author Unknown
Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.
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Author Unknown
Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.
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Author Unknown
Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.
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Desmond Morris
The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
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Eric Morecambe
I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
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George Graham, 1997
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.
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George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
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.
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J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928
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.
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Jim Murray, 1967
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.
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Kyle Rote, Jr.
If you're attacking, you don't get as tired as when you're chasing.
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Luis Suarez
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.
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Mike Royko, 1994
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.
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Ondino Viera
Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.
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Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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Paul Gardner
To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion.
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Pete Davies
Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.
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Phil Woosnam, 1974
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.
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Sandy Strang
The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.
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