748 Quotes About Soccer

Many before have hailed the end of history; none have ever been right.

Back in the 1930s, when men with handlebar moustaches played football in long johns and tails, and the ball was a spherical clod of bitumen, did fans weep in the stands when their team lost? No. They limited their responses to a muttered 'blast' or a muted 'hurrah' before going home to smoke a pipe and lean on the mantelpiece.

Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.

He looks at me, the circle, then me again. “It’s really you, right? I didn’t create some simulacrum that was inhabited by a demon? Prove it’s you. Say something only Spencer would say.”“Like what?”“Say something annoying.”I think about it. “Well, you claim to be British, there’s really only one thing I can think of.”“That being?”I lean in close, my lips gently brushing his ear. “Soccer.”He shoves me away. “Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.

(The paradox of Italian soccer). As everyone knows, Italian men are the most foppish representatives of their sex on the planet. They smear on substantial quantities of hair care products and expend considerable mental energies color-coordinating socks with belts. Because of their dandyism, the world has Vespa, Prada, and Renzo Piano. With such theological devotion to aesthetic pleasure, it is truly perplexing that their national style of soccer should be so devoid of this quality.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.