"Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!"
- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"There's a strange uniformity in the vocabulary European soccer fans use to hate black people. The same primate insults get hurled. Although they've gotten better over time, the English and Italians de..."
- Franklin Foer
"Football is the poetry of a motion."
- Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake
"ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports."
- Anthony Liccione
"Okay, on my first night, he tried to chat me up. You know how the story goes. ‘You have the most beautiful eyes, I’m very rich, want to see my bedroom?’ Blah, blah, blah.”“And because you turned him d..."
- Kyra Lennon
"AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leop..."
- David Bennun
"The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football."
- Terry Pratchett
"It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common ..."
- Simon Kuper
"Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere."
"To be a professional you have to act like one as well.."
- Alcurtis Turner