Danny Baker famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential.
-- Danny Baker

#Soccer #Player #Games
May we now all rise and sing the eternal school hymn: "Attack. Attack. Attack Attack Attack!"
-- Danny Baker

#Funny #School #Hymns
We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.
-- Danny Baker

#Abacus #Weasels #Generic
I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.
-- Danny Baker

#Hate #Games #Joy
When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.
-- Danny Baker

#Soccer #Football #Jobs
Footballers today are forced to conform to a bodily aesthetic that in its rigidity and uniformity makes fashion models look as varied as snowflakes. This wasn't always so. Up until the 1980s most teams in all divisions had a couple of fat ones, a couple of little ones, at least one bandy one, one completely covered in hair, two weaklings and a chap with no neck. This was an era when you didn't need names on the backs of shirts in order to tell who's who, you could clearly identify them with your eyes half shut from the other side of the pitch.
-- Danny Baker

#Soccer #Football #Fashion
To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.
-- Danny Baker

#Nuts #People #Concern

He's not fit, either physically or biomechanically.
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end, such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

Danny Baker famous quotes

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