"One of the reserves came up to me and said 'I'm finding it a bit hard, it's the first time I've ever been dropped'. So I told him to do what Nick Faldo does and work at his game. Next thing I know he's doing exactly what Faldo does, he's taken up golf."

-- Ron Atkinson

#Soccer Quotes #Football Quotes #Taken Quotes

“I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.”
“I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press”
“Thereâ€™s nothing under the ground thatâ€™s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.”
“You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.”
“Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.”
“People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.”

Source : 1959 In the NewYork Times, 25 Oct.
“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”
“I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.”

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