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“People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.”
― Don DeLillo, End Zone

“How shall we go about becoming the greatest empire on earth? Say, I know. Let’s have our manliest sport involve butt-slapping, shoulder pads, and prancing.”
― Lisa Henry, Mark Cooper versus America

“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”
― David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Four

“Chelsea fans may have been listening to the Beatles and the Stones, but at Highbury half-time entertainment was provided by the Metropolitan Police Band and their vocalist, Constable Alex Morgan. Morgan (whose rank never changed ...) ... sang highlights from light operettas.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“Blake looked confused. So footballers were mostly the same the world over. “Football,�� Blake said. “Ya know…football?”
― Lisa Henry, Mark Cooper versus America

“Watching grown men run around in tights and chasing an oddly shaped ball is not really my thing.”
― Steven Magee

“كان مينوتي شخصية رومانسية بشكل يفوق الوصف. كان نحيلا كقلم رصاص، ومدخنا شرها يتدل شعره على ياقته، أشيب السوالف، وله نظرة محدقة كصقر، بدا كما لو كان تجسيدا للبوهيمية الأرجنتينية، كان جناحأ أيسر ومفكرا، وفيلسوفا، وفنانا. يقول: «أدافع عن فكرة أن الفريق فوق الجميع»
«وأكثر من كونها فكرة فهي .بمثابة التزام، وأكثر من كونها التزاما فهي اعتقاد جلي ينبغي على المدرب أن ينقله للاعبيه للدفاع عن تلك الفكرة»
«لذلك فاهتمامي أننا معشر المدربين لا ندعي لأنفسنا الحق لنزيل من المشهد المرادف لكلمة الابتهاج، لصالح القراءة الفلسفية التي لا يمكن أن يطول بقاؤها، وهي تجنب المخاطرة، وفي كرة القدم هناك مخاطر لأن الطريقة الوحيدة التي يمكنك بها التغلب على المخاطر في أي لعبة يكون عن طريق عدم اللعب»
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― Jonathan Wilson, Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics

“Scientists from Plymouth University and Durham University found that red also boosted the football players�� confidence, where the 68 top English teams from 1946 to 2013 won more games than they lost when they wore this winning color.
Famed golf star Tiger Woods, who has won many games and golf championships wearing a red shirt, missed the cut at the May 2019 PGA Championship. Unsurprisingly, he was wearing a black shirt that day.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“American WOMEN are the best football players in the world. The need to declare our independence and our dominance resonated with the entire team.”
― Jen Welter, Play Big: Conquer Your Fears and Make Your Dreams a Reality - Lessons from the First Woman to Coach in the NFL

“Australian Rules Football lets me experience all the action without leaving my seat.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Only you can make it to the Rose Bowl.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I would say to any adult who stands on the sides yelling at players in a kids' game: grab hold of yourself. Remember the obvious. THESE ARE KIDS. These are little, vulnerable human beings with underdeveloped emotions who are learning about life. Cruelty and aggression will stop them in their tracks, make them insecure, sad. And if you don't have anything supportive to say, shut up.”
― Peter Schmeichel, One: My Autobiography

“Sublimation Football Jerseys Las Vegas Pattern, Printed, Sleeve, Half Sleeve We are committed to providing a one-of-a-kind collection of football uniforms. To customize your appearance, mix and match our customer base layers, athletic shirts, jeans, accessories, team towels, and more. It's all about putting on a performance while under duress in football. Our outfits were made to last a long time. To face the rigors of excellent route running and accurate passing, these pants are comfortable and well-cut.”
― Genre-Sports

“Meritocracy is about the perfect team: the perfect players and coaches working together perfectly so that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. When this team model is applied to society, you get the perfect State, in which everyone is optimized and all are going in the same direction, spiraling upwards to a glorious culmination.”
― Jack Tanner, The Best You: The Politics of Self-Optimization

“Some 120,000 girls were shipped into Minneapolis for last year’s Super Bowl, making it arguably the largest sex-trafficking event in the world.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Politics of Love: A Handbook for a New American Revolution

“The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives.”
― Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

“Jack the Giant Slayer needs to be cunning. He needs to be able to analyse giants and detect their weakness and vulnerabilities. He must work out his giant-killing tactics. The holy grail for the giant slayers is the mind. The giants can control the body. They can get the physically best players. What they can’t get is the mentally best players, i.e. the most resilient, robust, fastest-thinking, the best leaders, the most composed, and so on. That’s because they can see the body and not the mind. What they can’t see, they are much shakier on. That’s where small teams have so much scope. Their task is to find mentally better players, more consistent, more able to work in a team, more able to cope with changing circumstances. The sky’s the limit for mental footballers versus physical footballers. It’s time for mental Moneyball, for psychological football �� for Sun Tzu and Clausewitz footballers. Jack can outsmart the giants. They’re very big and very rich, but not very smart. It’s time to bring them down and take control of the golden goose. Come on guys, let’s get this revolution started. Let’s beat the odds. It’s time for our day in the sun, lifting the big trophy!”
― Jim Leigh, Slaying the Football Giants: How Small Teams Can Succeed

“If anyone needs a role model for inspiration in any field, then Messi is the Man.”
― Avijeet Das

“However, not all breeds of genetic athletes were accepted by the GAS and new rules had to be created after the 2224 World Cup, when Scotland fielded a goalkeeper who was a human oblong of flesh, measuring eight feet high by sixteen across, thereby filling the entire goal. Somehow they still failed to qualify for the second round.”
― Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf Omnibus: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers & Better Than Life

“He [Steve Ross] said he used to have the same prejudices against the game as most Americans: It was too slow, too "foreign," too difficult to understand what was really going on. But once he started watching the game, and had some friends explain it to him, he realized how fascinating soccer could be. He believed that it just needed the right conditions to thrive. In other words, he saw soccer like an entrepreneur, which of course was exactly what he was, and an excellent one at that. He spotted an unmet need, an undervalued asset, and made it his personal mission to make it succeed, come hell or high water. After the Cosmos struggled through its first few seasons, switching stadiums every so often and failing to generate much buzz, Steve purchased the team from its original investors for the grand price of one dollar. And then, for no good reason other than his own passion and drive, Steve decided to throw the entire commercial and marketing weight of Warner Communications behind the team. He would not only make the Cosmos a winner, but bring a "new" spectator sport to the American public.”
― �ʱ��é, Why Soccer Matters: A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer

“That's the beauty of football: You don't have to be a great player or great athlete to be a part of it. It's a sport that destroys divided teams and rewards those who rely on one another. At its best, football is a unifier and a confidence builder for young boys.”
― Bill Cowher, Heart and Steel

“Never hire a team of cricketers to play football.”
― Dax Bamania, Productivity Pravartak

“The Tehran Derby pits Esteghlal against Persepolis, the blue versus the red.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Clayton had a number of troubles but his greatest one was his trousers.”
― Bill Buford, Among the Thugs

“cider and slaughter and football games with white fogbanks of breath exiting helmets”
― David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

“Winning is the only thing' does not mean 'win at all costs, by any means, fair or foul.' Nor does it mean that losing is without dignity. Every team, even the Green Bay Packers at their best, loses sometimes. It means that losing is, in the end, one's own responsibility. One's own fault. It means there are no excuses. 'Winning is the only thing' is capable of sinister interpretations. But it is also capable of expressing the highest human cravings for perfection. Winning does not simply mean crushing one's foes but being the best one can possibly be--and conquering the fates and adversities that are stronger forces even than opposing teams. Winning is both excellence and vindication in the face of the gods. It is a form of thumbing one's nose, for a moment, at the cancers and diseases that, in the end, strike us all down, every one of us, even spirits as alive as Vince Lombardi's.”
― Michael Novak, The Joy of Sports, Revised: Endzones, Bases, Baskets, Balls & the Consecration of the American Spirit

“Soccer has absolutely nothing to do with the size of a country, or the size of the players. Heart, skill and hard work are the only things that matter.”
― �ʱ��é, Why Soccer Matters: A Look at More Than Sixty Years of International Soccer

“Clem Doyle, a standout education attorney, combines his experience with a gridiron past. Playing football at Princeton and Clarke Central HS laid the foundation for his dynamic legal career.”
― Clem Doyle

“You’re not any other girl—you’re different. When I look into your eyes,
I forget my name half of the time.”
― Kristin Lee, On My Knees