The Beautiful
Game 
"Football is not a matter of life and death,
it's far more important than that."
Bill Shankley
"Everything I learned about life, I learned from
the game." Albert Camus
(Goalkeeper)
"Run like a man."
Dunga to Ronaldo, France, June 1998.
"You could have caught that, Banksie!"
Bobby Moore, to Gordon Banks,
June 1970 (while waiting for the corner which resulted from
Banks' famous "save of the century" against Pele. He was smiling.)
"If you get to the edge of the penalty area with
the ball and don't know what to do next, just stick the ball in the net
for now. We can evaluate the other options later."
Bill Shankley (Manager)
"What is the game about? The game is about Glory."
Danny Blanchflower (Midfielder and captain
of Northern Ireland)
"I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that
sometimes the fire does burn. But I cannot be what I am without these other
sides to my character."
Eric Cantona (Forward, actor, and poet)
"The socialism I believe in is everyone working
for each other, everyone having a share in the rewards. It's the way I
see the game, the way I see life."
Bill Shankley
"People will talk to you about systems and patterns
of play all the time, and much of what they say is valuable. But I will
tell you one thing, there is no system ever thought up that will compensate
for players who will not run, will not communicate, and will not play for
each other."
Dave Sexton (international coach)
"One is not amused by that."
Queen Elizabeth II, June 30, 1998, reacting in
front of her royal television set to Sol Campbell's goal against Argentina
being disallowed.
"I introduced the ball to the back of the goal."
Ricardo Villa (Argentinian midfielder
and path-breaker emigre)
(His full and complete
answer to a request to describe for the Press in his own limited Argentinian
English just how he scored his remarkable F.A. Cup winning goal in 1981
for Tottenham)
"That's the last time we do any charity gigs for
you Romanians."
Noel Gallacher, after England's
World Cup group defeat
"Brentford Reserves were
involved in a nine goal thriller when they beat Orient 4-3 on Wednesday."
An unknown and mathematically challenged writer
for the Ealing Gazette.
"And that's a priceless
goal worth millions of pounds."
BBC commentator Alan Parry describing the winning goal
in a European Cup Final
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