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If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer,

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

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Soccer is a game in which everyone does a lot of running around. Twenty-one guys stand around and one guy does a tap dance with the ball. – Jim Murray, 1967

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To the aesthete it is an art form, an athletic ballet. To the spiritually inclined it is a religion. – Paul Gardner

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