748 Quotes About Soccer


  • Author Nando Dalla Chiesa
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    Ma Gigi era doppiamente diverso: perché portava avanti certe idee in un ambiente che ne ha poche e poco ardite, cioè nell'ambiente dello sport; e perché le portava avanti con originalità, con profonda convinzione.

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  • Author Richard Calland
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    For the record, the vuvuzela is not my enemy — and I even have, for reasons of self-defence installed a mini-vuvu with surprisingly powerful performance levels around my neck — though I miss hearing the crescendo of noise from the crowd that should accompany a promising attack on goal or a goal itself. Instead, of course, there is the monotone drone — a constant that belies the ebbs and flows of a game.

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  • Author Gena Showalter
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    We’ll call ourselves Victorious Secret and our motto will be ‘We Live to Spank You.’ Duuude. Yes! I’m basically the smartest person in the world. Ever. You in? Of course you’re in. Practice begins tomorrow.

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  • Author Eduardo Galeano
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    [Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman wanting to be kissed.

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  • Author Mark Steyn
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    One day the UN Secretary General proposes that, in the interest of global peace and harmony, the world's soccer players should come together and form one United Nations global soccer team."Great idea," says his deputy. "Er, but who would we play?""Israel, of course.

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  • Author Stewart Stafford
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    The only time you should think about winning the World Cup is when you're holding it above your head in celebration once the final is over. Anything else is presumptuous.

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