Friday, February 15, 2008

Football - christiansquoting.org.uk

Winning isn't everything. There should be no conceit in victory and no despair in defeat.-, Matt Busby

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football - Albert Camus,

Football is a game you play with your brain - , Johan Cruyff

Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the king,on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in future.
Edward II, Royal proclamation banning football from the streets of London, 1314

Football is nothing but beastlie furie and extreme violence. Sir Thomas Elyot "Boke of Governour" 1531

The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement- Freud

Football is working class ballet. - , Alf Garnett

He isn't fit to lace George Best's drinks. -- A writer in The Independent on Kevin Keegan

You might accuse me of having to politicize everything, but, in my hometown, soccer was very definitely a project of the Left.....It was sort of the athletic equivalent of vegetarianism.-- Jay Nordlinger

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. - JB Priestley,

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. It is much more impotant than that. Bill Shankly,

Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present, it was her birthday. Would I have got married in the football season? Anyway, it was Rochdale reserves. - Shankly

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation----a bloody and murthering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime. And hereof groweth envy, malice, rancour, choler, hatred, displeasure, enmity and what not else; and sometimes fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder, homicide and great effusion of blood, as experience daily teacheth. Philip Stubbes "Anatomie of Abuses" (1583)

If partying, drinking and dancing is your thing, then play your football over the park. - Terry Venables, first press conference as Leeds United manager, 9 July 2002

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians. Oscar Wilde

Have you noticed how we only win the World Cup under a Labour Government ? - Harold Wilson 1966

They think it's all over - it is now - Kenneth Wolstenholme, June 1966.

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