#football

My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. ↗

— David Miliband

#capitalism #childhood #dad #debating #football

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#clubs #football #football clubs #funding #gigantic

You know I'll never say no, and Nate's so dedicated, I think he loves our alpha more than me." "I resent that," Nate grumbled. "I might love football more than you, but definitely not Lucas's ugly mug. ↗

— Nalini Singh

#love #lucas #nate #tasmyn #love

And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball. ↗

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

#idol #inspiration #soccer #inspirational

once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#inspirational #paradox #perseverance #inspirational

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#exes #football #forgiveness #heartbreak #love

The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands. Now, more often than not, they are checking the share prices. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#coming #distractions #football #footballers #get

The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#day #football #get #i #life

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#cricket #fan #football #i #sports