Football is the opera of the people. – Stafford Heginbotham, 1985
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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game…. In a world haunted by the hydrogen and napalm bomb, the football field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested. – Stanley Rous, 1952
To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. – J.B. Priestley, The Good Companions, 1928
A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball. – Soccer advertisement, published for the MetroStars Major League Soccer team, 199
I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding. – Elizabeth Gilbert
Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. – Richard Ernst
