#foot

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions. ↗

— Franklin Foer

#football-clubs #religion #soccer #religion

And I love shooting football. ↗

— David Fincher

#i #i love #love #shooting

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. ↗

— John B. Keane

#else #everybody #everybody else #footballer #good

So every day I'm mindful as I watch the Bush crowd extend their sway into policies of every imaginable variety, and over almost every square foot of earth, that the control of the American state is a matter of urgency. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #bush #control #crowd #day

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bay #been #days #detroit #football

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cedar #characters #chinese #contrive #favourite

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#anywhere #black #clad #clean #colour

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support. ↗

— Anna Friel

#background #bit #footballers #i #i think

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. ↗

— Fred Frith

#ball #costumes #dressed #even #football

In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#game #learn #life #like #must