"Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching and farting. English football culture is one of pure, intense competition, and that's why I have always preferred it to Italy."

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Source : "Derek McGovern's Wednesday betting update: When the heat is on, Kaymer keeps his cool" by Derek McGovern, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2013.

Paolo Di Canio

#Football Quotes #Player Quotes #Competition Quotes

“A woman should be pink and cuddly for a man.”
“Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.”
“The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy. Americans are almost as fearful of being thought eccentric as the English of not seeming like the genuine article. I once knew an Englishman who refused to go out on Easter Monday for fear of being detected in London when all the right people would be elsewhere; but when he went forth on less dangerous occasions, his get-ups were such as no American would wear to a dogfight.”
“I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.”
“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.”
“I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.”
“When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.”
“They're daring me to kill again.”

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