"What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything."

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Source : "Ryan Giggs: Nice guy finishes first" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

Ryan Giggs

#Fighting Quotes #Player Quotes #Kicking Quotes

“I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.”

Source : Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
“The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.”
“Reading Tomato Red-the first Daniel Woodrell novel I came upon-was a transformative experience. It expanded my sense of the possibilities not only of crime fiction, but of fiction itself-of language, of storytelling. Time and again, his work just dazzles and humbles me. God bless Busted Flush for these glorious reissues. It's a service to readers everywhere, and a great gift.”
“I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.”

Source : "British MP denies oil-for-food charges" by Phil Hirschkorn, www.cnn.com. May 17, 2005.
“Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “Lectures. Aphorisms. A history of art in the schools of Italy”, p.64
“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”
“Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.”

Source : Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.180, Macmillan

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