“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.” SchoolActingHalfCrazyFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTownsTexasSmall Town Author:Jesse Plemons
“I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.” MenLittlesStoriesAgeSpaceHalfBreakCuttingWrittenFootballSpeechPaperSixPagesSticksSevenEdgesEightSquaresBubblesSheetsSpyFolds Author:Ian Rankin
“I was hoping in the last fifteen minutes that Barcelona would beat them. I've made my mind up on Benitez tonight. He's a nice man but he's got a huge negative streak running through him. Liverpool was terrible in the second half. They didn't play football. If that was a concert, you'd boo. Gerrard: found out. A nothing player. They were terrible. Terrible.” IfsMenMindMadePlayRunningLastsFoundHalfNicePlayerMinutesFootballHugeTerribleBeatsNegativeTonightConcertsFifteenLiverpoolStreaksBarcelonaNice Man Author:Eamon
“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly £1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get £26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.” CountryMightEarthTogetherHalfTeamTelevisionFootballTvsSeasonsTablesBottomExpectedSoccerAnalysisIslandsCashCentsRevenueRivalsBelgiansWigan Author:Simon Kuper
“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.” HumansMayDoeTwoIdeasSportsHalfTalentFootballDependsSettingSettingsFearlessSoccerAnalysisAvoidingOther HalfOne HalfCoexistFlair Author:Edward Smith
“The score is high and very brutal but does not reflect what we saw on the pitch. The first shot on goal was a goal. The second was an own goal. The third was straight after half-time. They defend like mad and they catch us on the break.” FirstsDoeGoalHalfBreakSawsFootballShotsThirdsMadManagersSoccerScoreBrutalChairmanHalf Time Author:Arsene Wenger
“This is a game between players from 12 national sides, a game that if you have a friend in China, in Brazil, in Qatar...in half the world he wants to watch. I was thinking of this game when I signed for Chelsea.” IfsThinkingWorldWantGamesSidesHalfWatchesPlayerFootballChinaManagersSoccerChairmanBrazilChelseaQatar Author:Luiz Felipe Scolari
“Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.” FirstsHalfFootballCommentatorsShortsBradyLiam Author:Jimmy Magee
“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.” PeopleIfsWellsDifferentFoundGamesSportsEnjoyHalfWatchesViolenceTeamFieldsFootballThousandQuietIntellectualEmptyBaseballBallsExcitingAppealsParksComparisonAfternoonAestheticStadiumsBounceTuesdayFootball GameSports TeamOne Sided Author:Bowie Kuhn
“I started playing ball when I was 13 and a half. Before that, I just wanted to play football and baseball but I kept growing so I figured it was time for basketball.” PlayWantedHalfGrowingFootballBasketballBaseballBalls Author:Moses Malone
“How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.” MotivationalGamesSportsChallengesHalfFootballDeterminationCompetitionAthleteDetermineSoccerWinnerMotivational SportsLoserInspirational SportsFunny InspirationalSecond ChanceFootball TeamFootball GameInspirational TeamBaseball GamesMotivational Inspirational SportsSports PsychologyGreat SportsAthlete MotivationalInspirational FootballShort SportsTeam PlayerFootball CoachShort Inspirational SportsGreatest SportsShort Motivational SportsSports FootballGreat Inspirational SportsInspirational BaseballFunny SportsGreat Motivational SportsSports CoachFootball MotivationWinner And LoserCoaches MotivationalMotivational BaseballMotivational FootballCoaches And PlayersInspirational CoachPlayer To CoachInspirational Football CoachFunny Inspirational SportsSports SpiritTeam MotivationalHalf TimeSoccer GameWinners MotivationalFootball LeadershipSportsman SpiritWinners In SportsMotivational SpeechInspirational Speech Author:Lou Holtz
“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.” LongWarShowsGamesSportsWalksHalfFictionNovelFootballMadnessAbsolutesExtraordinaryIraqContemporaryLinksAppetiteFavouriteCowboyFountainIraq WarFiction WritersDallasContemporary FictionFootball GameTexanHalf TimeDallas Cowboy Author:Adam Hochschild
“You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.” KnowsNeedsLongHappensLastsStrongSportsHalfKnow HowFootballIncompleteBladderProfessional Sports Author:Joe Buck
“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindLittlesStillsGuyGamesCitiesHalfTeamEffectsFootballSceneGaySwimOscarsHarvardGay PeopleFootball TeamKansasYaleCapesWildeKansas CityGnarlySwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” SportsHoursHalfMinutesFoodFootballDinnerHolidayTwelveCoincidenceThanksgivingConsumedEighteenAmerican FootballFootball TeamThanksgiving DayThanksgiving And GratitudeThanksgiving ThanksThanksgiving GratitudeThanksgiving HolidayInspirational ThanksgivingHappy ThanksgivingFunny ThanksgivingThanksgiving InspirationalFunny American FootballThanksgiving FunnyLove ThanksgivingThanksgiving GreetingsThanksgiving DinnerFunny Happy ThanksgivingGood ThanksgivingThanksgiving LoveFamily ThanksgivingThanksgiving WishesThanksgiving And LoveFunny Thanksgiving DayChristian ThanksgivingHappy Thanksgiving WishesFriends ThanksgivingHoliday GivingThanksgiving ChristianThanksgiving TurkeyHalf TimeHappy Thanksgiving LoveTurkeys On ThanksgivingThanksgiving ThoughtsNice ThanksgivingHappy Thanksgiving PoemsTurkey DayThanksgiving JokesThanksgiving Card Author:Erma Bombeck
“Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.” InspirationalGivingWinningSportsHalfFootballGiving UpAthleteMotivational SportsDon't Give UpFootballerAmerican FootballFootball TeamMotivational Inspirational SportsWinning AttitudeInspirational FootballPro FootballFootball CoachFunny SportsGreat FootballMotivational FootballInspirational Football CoachHalf TimeWinning Football Author:Bear Bryant