“Nearly everything possible had been done to spoil the game: the heavy financial interest; the absurd transfer and player-selling system; the lack of any birth or residential qualifications; the absurd publicity given to every feature of it by the press; the monstrous partisanships of the crowds.” DoneGamesGivenInterestPlayerFootballBirthPressesFinancialCrowdsHeavyAbsurdSellingSoccerFeaturesAnalysisSpoilPublicityMonstrousTransfersQualificationsPartisanship Author:J. B. Priestley
“I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.” InterestChurchGoneFootballCollegeRelatedScholarship Author:R. C. Sproul
“People ask me about my interests outside football, but I haven't really got any.” PeopleAsksInterestHavensFootballAsk Me Author:Brian McDermott
“A lot of people have lost interest in watching England play. To get motivated to watch international football, you need your country to be having some form of success and England haven't had any for a long time now.” PeopleNeedsLongCountryPlayFormLostInterestWatchesHavensFootballLong TimeEnglandInternationalMotivated Author:Michael Owen
“It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.” IfsFirstsGamesInterestFootballQuartersFourthOctoberNovemberDecemberJanuaryPremiumFourth Quarter Author:Jerry Jones
“I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.” PeopleBelieveTwoImportantStatesFeelingsTodayI BelieveSportsInterestMillionsExampleFootballAnd LoveCompetitionMinistersPrimeColleaguesPrime MinisterMarathonDeputiesSports CompetitionFootball Match Author:Vladimir Putin
“We had similar interests with Derek Rowan and Paul Hewson; it sounds really pretentious at 12, 13 year old kids were like into art and poetry, but we were. We weren't into football, we were into making music or being into music and painting and stuff like that. And we called this sort of little gang Lypton Village and we made up imaginary games and this is one day we'll form bands and one day we'll make movies and one day we'll do this and one day we'll do that. A lot of kids do this in their own way, except 25, 30 years later legend happens because some of us have become quite well known.” ArtKidsInterestFootballPaintingOne DayImaginaryWell KnownGangPretentious Author:Gavin Friday
“Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.” PlayInterestSpecialFootballMalesExcuseBeing A WomanAmerican FootballSpecial InterestsFunny American FootballTranssexuals Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.” InterestTakenFootballI Love Football Author:Wayne Rooney
“I believe in work, in connections between the players, I think what makes football great is that it is a team sport. You can win in different ways, by being more of a team, or by having better individual players. It is the team ethic that interests me, always.” ThinkingWayBelieveDifferentWinningIndividualI BelieveSportsInterestEffortPlayerTeamFootballEthicsConnectionsI Believe InDifferent WaysSports TeamYou Can Win Author:Arsene Wenger
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.” DreamFatherHouseLeftInterestRoomsCitiesTeamLove YouFootballEvidenceArmyMetaphorDefinitionsDesertTriumphOppositionThrivePrizeCelestialFootball TeamAmerican Gods Author:Neil Gaiman
“Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play football, they no longer do anything; they no longer exist, or rather they have the sensation of no longer existing.” WayInspirationalPlayMotivationalInterestPlayerFootballSensations Author:Eric Cantona