Serge Schmemann famous quotes

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Soccer #Sports #Passion

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Soccer #Want #Complaining

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Paris #Car #Done

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Art #Book #Reading

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Blue #Circles #Leader

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
-- Serge Schmemann

#People #Trying #Stories

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).
-- Serge Schmemann

#Axes #Evil #Lists

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.
-- Serge Schmemann

#Narrative #Middle East #Insult

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.

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.

You always catch the wrong players.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Shun fear, it is the ague of the soul! a passion man created for himself--for sure that cramp of nature could not dwell in the warm realms of glory.

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.