“Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing left-back? Four? I would love to sleep that long. If you want a really long career you have to find a way of switching off. I do it when I'm out walking my dog, Alex Ferguson got into horses, others get into wine. Some players like going shopping, which is not my scene. A lot of them turn to golf. I tried it, didn't like it. I have to walk. If I couldn't I'd be in a padded cell by now.” IfsWayWantShouldLongTurnsLeftSleepWalksWonderCareersMorningFourPlayerDogFootballWalkingSceneHorseWake UpWineGolfCellsManagersSoccerShoppingMy DogChairmanAlexReally LongSwitchingFergusonLong CareersSwitching Off Author:Roy Keane
“I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again and I get mugged I hope the same number of people turn up to protect me. There were six police, four stewards and even a UN peace observer out there.” PeopleIfsTurnsNumbersFourFootballEasierProtectSixPoliceLondonManagersSoccerPopeObserversChairmanStewardsRefs Author:Gordon Strachan
“In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.” IfsWantTwoDifferentSometimesHardBigsCertainCan DoPerfectLevelsBehindsCreativeFourHonestFootballFairsEnglandMirrorsClubsLondonBoundariesLikesManagersSoccerProductiveChairmanTransfersTempoEnglish Society Author:Jens Lehmann
“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?” IfsNeedsFirstsAmericaThreeCasesFourPlayerFootballIndiaManagersSoccerSailChairmanColumbus Author:Claudio Ranieri
“Four wins in four matches. It could not be better... the world is fantastic.” WorldWinningFourFootballManagersFantasticSoccerChairman Author:Jose Mourinho
“This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.” YearsAmericaFacesPoliticalNextGamesLevelsLeaderClassTakenFourTeamBattleWorshipRedBlueSouthWelcomeSoccerBordersRepublicFour YearsArrogantBananasSoccer Game Author:Justin Raimondo
“Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.” WantYearsTwoBookReasonAmericaThreeTermClassFourTeachingLandMiddleMarkTwentiesAimCriticsPassionateDetailsCornersDecadesSoccerExcellentLeagueWheelsMiddle ClassLastingFour YearsGraduatesSheepVividIvyAmerican LifeWeirdnessYaleColumbiaEntiretyIndictmentIvy LeagueStrikersUpper Middle ClassMiddle Class Life Author:Dwight Garner
“I'll admit, right away, that I am disappointed that we did not have a major trophy to show for our efforts. We were in four and we had a good side, but when you count second place as failure, then standards are becoming fantastically high. We never celebrate second place here.” ShowsSidesEffortFourBecomingMajorsStandardsCelebrateSoccerDisappointedTrophiesSecond PlaceI Am Disappointed Author:Bob Paisley
“if four Gaza kids playing soccer were killed Wednesday, as Hamas claims, the terror group is at fault.” IfsKidsFourGroupsClaimsFaultsTerrorSoccerGazaWednesdayHamasPlaying SoccerKids Playing Author:Naftali Bennett
“I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.” WorldYearsSexFourThis WorldCupsSoccerFour YearsFootballerWorld CupFunny SoccerEnglish Football Author:Ronaldo
“Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.” SufferingGamesFiveFourPlayerToughSoccerInjurySoccer Player Author:Dave Barry
“If you like soccer, then welcome to America. See, our country already has entertainment so watching people chase a ball for four hours to end 0 - 0 is not enjoyable - unless, of course, the bleachers collapse and half of Europe dies.” PeopleIfsEndsCountryAmericaDiesCoursesHoursHalfFourEuropeBallsEntertainmentWelcomeOur CountrySoccerCollapseEnjoyableBleachers Author:Daniel Tosh