Eduardo Galeano Soccer Quotes

#1. The goal is soccer's orgasm. And like orgasms, goals have become an ever less frequent occurrence in modern life.

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#2. In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

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#3. A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a proof that people think with their feet.

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#4. The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

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#5. I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

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#6. The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

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#7. Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

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#8. The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

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#9. I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer.

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#10. His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself ... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away opponents as he flows forward in an elegant wave.

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#11. The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

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#12. The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy, kills fantasy and outlaws daring.

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#13. I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.

Summer Sanders

#14. [Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call of a ball asking to be played with, music demanding to be danced to, a woman wanting to be kissed.

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#15. Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it

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#16. Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.

Jacques Ellul

#17. Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.

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#19. From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

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#20. Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

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#21. You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

Kurt Angle

#22. I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.

Robert Harris