"I was 10 when I realised I couldn't stand football. I'd tried, obviously, before this - no one wants to give in to social pariah-hood without a fight. I had stood frozen on pitches, done some running about and shouted a lot, as though I cared."

-- Andrew O'Hagan

#Football Quotes #Running Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.”
“Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.”
“Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.”
“The pawn is the soul of chess.”
“The people will come to their own at last,-God is not mocked forever.”

Source : John Hay (1871). “Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces”, p.41
“You learn from everybody. You learn from the players. You learn from great coaches. You learn from great teams”
“I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.”
“It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.”

You may also like:

A.L. Kennedy
Writer
Anne Enright
Author
Colm Toibin
Novelist
Ian McDiarmid
Theatre actor
Irvine Welsh
Novelist
James Kelman
Writer
Julian Assange
Journalist
Sebastian Barry
Playwright
Edna O'Brien
Novelist