“Everybody thinks that you go to Africa and you build a school, or you teach English, or you build a hospital. But actually all you need to do is play football with kids for six months and then after they've trusted you, you tell them about the truth of Aids, and that their grandmother didn't die from witchcraft, she died from Aids. And that's the biggest difference you can make.” ThinkingNeedsPlayKidsSchoolDiesDifferencesTeachFootballMonthsSixDiedAidsGrandmotherHospitalsTrustedSix MonthsWitchcraft Author:Tom Hiddleston
“But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with its pathetically-inadequate presence for the past 12 months - where the money has gone? You know, the £30m or so in prize money that every team, even the one at the bottom of the table from August to May, automatically receives by being in the Premier League... So what happened to that money? Or put another way, why was such a meaningless fraction of it spent on recruiting new players? It's one thing not to compete; it's quite another not to even attempt to do so.” KnowsWayMindMayPastGonePlayerHappenedOne ThingTeamFootballMonthsTablesBottomSoccerAnalysisLeaguePrizeMeaninglessAnother WayInadequateAugustFractionsPremier LeagueDerbyPrize Money Author:Pete Gill
“Nine months of misery.” FootballMonthsMiseryNineManagersSoccerChairmanNine Months Author:Steve Coppell
“You don't look for jobs. You don't phone up 10 clubs and say, Here I am. You are offered the job. I was in Benfica many years ago. I was leaving the training ground and I had a car after me. It went on for 10 minutes. Anyhow, he stopped and I stopped and he said, I'm from the Italian embassy. Ah yes, and what do you want? I want your phone number because Roma wants you as a manager next season. Three months later I was sitting on the bench in Roma. I don't think the rest of working society works like football.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksSaidJobsThreeNextNumbersMinutesCarFootballMonthsTrainingSittingYears AgoSeasonsLeavingPhonesClubsManagersSoccerItalianI Want YouChairmanBenchesHere I AmThree MonthsPhone NumbersEmbassySitting On The Bench Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson
“We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.” YearsTwoGuyNextSportsProcessTeamFootballColorMonthsDepthCoachesFlyingInterviewsFootball TeamTwo MonthsHead Coaches Author:Ron Jaworski
“I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was backpacked into the Quebec bush. I grew up in and out of the bush, in and out of Ottawa, Sault Ste. Marie and Toronto.” GamesBornFootballGrewMonthsSixGrew UpCupsHospitalsGraySix MonthsTorontoFootball GameMarieQuebecOttawaGeneral Hospital Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations
“There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.” LongSportsFootballMonthsGoes OnBasketballBaseballSeasonsWeatherMotivational SportsProfessional Sports Author:James Reston, Jr.
“Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until the day before his anniversary to buy his wife a gift.” MenWaitingFourWifeFootballMonthsHusbandTickets Author:Rita Rudner
“If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.” IfsKnowsNeedsMeanPersonsEndsPlayCharacterAbleTurnsNamesTroubleTeamMiddleFootballTaughtMonthsGood ThingsCall MeAnd OffMiddle Ground Author:Terry Crews
“This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach.” YearsBelieveWould BeFacesFootballMonthsDoctorsStomachBelieve In MeLiverTransplants Author:Evel Knievel
“I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.” TryingTwoThreeFootballMonthsElectionTunesThree Months Author:Trey Parker
“February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.” SportsGoneFootballTvsMonthsBasketballBaseballAnnualsFebruarySports FootballDoldrums Book:Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Source: Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness