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| 18 April 2009 |
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The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick
it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
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Phil Woosnam, Welsh soccer player and manager
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| 25 April 2009 |
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Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very
disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more
important than that.
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Bill Shankly, English soccer manager
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| 02 May 2009 |
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In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.
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Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher
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| 09 May 2009 |
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Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great
responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how
to be like a man.
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Pele, Brazilian soccer player, considered possibly world's greatest
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| 16 May 2009 |
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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.
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George Orwell, English writer
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| 23 May 2009 |
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I fell in love with football as I would later fall in love with women: suddenly,
uncritically, giving no thought to the pain it would bring.
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Nick Hornby, opening sentence from the book Fever Pitch
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| 30 May 2009 |
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Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the
only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've
ever had.
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David Beckham
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| 06 June 2009 |
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Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you
better is how you react to it.
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Mia Hamm, American female soccer player
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| 13 June 2009 |
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I wouldn't be bothered if we lost every match this year as long as we win
the league!
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Mark Viduka
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| 20 June 2009 |
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Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
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Thierry Henry
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| 27 June 2009 |
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The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost
impossible. It's the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
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George Graham, Scottish soccer player and manager
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| 04 July 2009 |
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Before the match my daughter said: "Beenie the horse wants to sit next to you
by the drinks holder on the touchline". It is difficult to tell a seven-year-old:
"This is the Premiership, I'm known as Psycho and I'm a hard man".
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Stuart Pearce, English soccer player and manager
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| 11 July 2009 |
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The vision of a champion is someone bent over, drenched in sweat, to a point
of exhaustion, when no one else is watching.
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Anson Dorrance, American women's soccer coach
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| 18 July 2009 |
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Reporter: 'So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were
better than you today?'
Strachan: 'What areas? Mainly that big green one out there.'
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Gordon Strachan at a press conference
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| 25 July 2009 |
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Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of
controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass.
It is terribly simple.
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Bill Shankly's philosophy on football
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| 01 August 2009 |
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I do go to football sometimes but I don't know the offside rule or free-kicks
- or side kicks - or whatever they're called.
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Victoria Beckham on football
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| 08 August 2009 |
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If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage,
then he should be.
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Bill Shankly on player behaviour
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| 15 August 2009 |
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Football is simple but the hardest thing to do is playing simple football.
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Johan Cruijff, Dutch footballer and manager
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