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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