Arthur Hopcraft famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter.
-- Arthur Hopcraft -
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
-- Arthur Hopcraft
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Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
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If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
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You always catch the wrong players.
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I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.
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There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
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He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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Sure, this was where her father had planned the De Beers diamond heist when she was three. It was the very room where her uncle had orchestrated the hijacking of eighty percent of the world's caviar when she was seven.
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Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.
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You know how everybody has that one weird creepy uncle? Well, Seth Green looks like he got raped by all of them.
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