#football

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag. ↗

— Mokhtar Dahari

#inspirational #patriotism #inspirational

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#history #medieval-life #sport #life

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#sport #nature

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't ↗

— Jerry Rice

#accomplishments

...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #sport #imagination

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#football #getting #hell #i #kicked

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day. ↗

— Zinedine Zidane

#also #area #come #day #different

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill. ↗

— Charisma Carpenter

#circuit #drills #everything #football #gym

In life as in football, you must keep pressing on till the final whistle. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#life-ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #life

I somewhere along the way became fascinated with exploring characters who are willing to put themselves into violent situations, whether it's football, hockey, boxing, being a cop, being a soldier. There's not a lot of people who are willing to put themselves into those situations. ↗

— Peter Berg

#became #being #boxing #characters #cop