Adam Hochschild Quotes, Sports Quotes, Football Quotes

One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

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I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go.

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How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero.

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They care about their club, and that's why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative

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People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves and live life to the full. They work all week, pick their wages up at the end of the week and they spend it over a weekend by having a good time and watching the football. That's our life.

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2-0 is a cricket score in Italy

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It's not like I had to throw the football and deal with that as well. It was more disheartening, to be honest with you, just to kind of see how the National Football League really is.

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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

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It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.

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Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

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Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

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I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

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I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

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He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

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In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.

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

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