"Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next."

-- Martin Samuel

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“Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway.”

Source : Ron McLarty (2005). “The Memory of Running”, p.53, Penguin
“If you mention what he said about rapists from Mexico, there are some that come over - I can prove that with how many I have in the jail system - but I don't think Donald Trump meant that everybody coming over are rapists. Come on, he knows that and I know that.”

Source : "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.
“I like to be wild, and I like to do wild, crazy things. I need excitement. At all times. Normal is not my type.”
“My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.”
“I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.”
“It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.”

Source : Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.129, Penguin
“They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.”
“Dory is what Mum used to call a "strong-looking woman," which means that, from the back, she looked like a man, and, from the front, you preferred the back”

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