Soccer Quotations

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Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.

- Unknown Author

Up to five goals is journalism. After that, it becomes statistics.

- Unknown Author

Whenever the ball flew toward our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out and cleared the ball.

- Unknown Author

Why is there only one ball for 22 players? If you gave a ball to each of them, they'd stop fighting for it.

- Unknown Author

Anthony Burgess

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Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

- Anthony Burgess

Desmond Morris

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The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.

- Desmond Morris

Jim Murray

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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.

- Jim Murray

George Orwell

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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.

- George Orwell

J.B. Priestley

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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.

- J.B. Priestley

Mike Royko

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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.

- Mike Royko

Oscar Wilde

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

- Oscar Wilde