Quotations

" A distracted existence leads us to no goal."
Goethe

" Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal."
Goethe

": Family, music and football. That's it really."
Peel, John

" For you whores and money - for us, repression and indignation."
Real Madrid fans' banner

" Everything is Changing; God Alone is changeless. Patience attains the goal!"
St.Teresa, of Avila

" If we do not know or even want to know the aims that the artist was pursuing through his work - his aims to inform, to convince, to influence people - then we do not get much further in understanding his art than the ignorant spectator who judges the football simply by the beauty of the players' movements."
Hauser, Arnold

" The pleasure that comes of exercising a power that questions not boundaries not to be crossed, but perpetual spirals of power and pleasure."
Foucault, Michel

"The point about football in Britain is that it is not just a sport people take to, like cricket or tennis. It is built into the urban psyche, as much a common experience to our children as are uncles and school. It is not a phenomenon : it is an everyday matter."
Hopcraft, Arthur

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
Hazlitt, William

"We two are to ourselves a crowd."
Ovid