"I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about"

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Source : "You're On Sky Sports", February 18, 2003.

Bobby Robson

#Football Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do backflips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, and I was able to - I'm able to see her. She's able to see me. We love each other.”
“I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.”

Source : "An Actor Takes His Place on a Stage of a Different Sort" by Paul Stenquist, www.nytimes.com. March 5, 2010.
“Historically, the host nations do well in Euro 2000.”
“I suffer from overheating quite easily.”
“For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.”
“The urge to climb will never be explained. In olden days, perhaps it was a wish to reach the stars. Today, anyone so minded can buy a seat on a plane and feel himself master of the skies. Even so, he will not have rock under his feet, or air upon his face; nor will he know the silence that comes only on the hills.”
“Link Wray is the all-time legend.”
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism.”

Source : "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden". "Trouw", March 31, 1977.

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