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You see football isn’t just about 90 minutes, it‘s about passion and, yes, if you like, about life. We men will do things under the umbrella of football fandom that we would never dream of doing in any other sphere of life, and within the pages that follow I will try and explain why.

You want to speed up the game, don't let the ball go out of bounds.

You watch pro ball and those guys spend so much time with their hands on each other's rear ends, you'd think they were feeling for diamonds or something.

,000 people in Hampden Park. Of course they're all Scottish. Because no one else goes there. The English have an unwritten rule: they only go to places they might get back from.

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

52,000 here tonight, but it sounds like 50,000.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Achieving Champions League football is the minimum requirement and always the most important thing for [Dortmund Borussia] club. Beyond that, we want to win a trophy. Maybe the German Cup, because we've reached the last three finals, but haven't won one, so that's a big motivation for us.

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance. It's go-time in front of 100,000 people and everybody watching on TV. That's exactly how it is when a director says 'Action!' It's the same adrenaline rush, the same training process. I love it.

A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

A football match should be decided by an action of play. Not some contrived process whose end result is to mark a fine player such as Bossis, Baresi or Baggio for the rest of his career.

A football team is like a company. All of the people working in a company are not supposed to love each other, but they are supposed to be professional.

A football team is like a society, straight up. There are rapists, but there are creatures and there are film guys.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.

A five-year-old Chinese girl knows more about football than I do.

A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.

A football team is really a big family. There's a give and take... but a few are working for their name only. They go the whole week trying to figure out who said something, what they said and where it happened instead of showing that they're big men.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

After I got disciplined I got introduced to football and then after that everything just took off for me. I had a lot of role models: the teachers, the coaches. Watching them give so much to so many students so they can be successful in life basically just ingrained in me that I think it's more gratifying for me to give back and than just to receive.

After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.

After you've won something, you're no longer 100 percent, but 90 percent. It's like a bottle of carbonated water where the cap is removed for a short while. Afterwards there's a little less gas inside.

A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

A game is not won until it is lost.

Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned 'some accountants and solicitors with them.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.

A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

A great pianist doesn't run around the piano or do push ups with his fingers. To be great, he plays the piano. ...being a footballer is not about running, push-ups or physical work generally. The best way to be a great footballer is to play.