Commentators Quotes - Page 4

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

Murdo MacLeod

Football, Perfect, Yards

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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

David Berlinski

Religious, Ignorance, Dark

David Berlinski (2009). “The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions”, p.65, Basic Books

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If you're old enough, you're good enough

Martin Tyler

Football, Good Enough, Ifs

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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul

Alan Green

Football, Foul

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John Moncur has been much more effective since he came on

Alan Green

Football, Has Beens

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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead

Alan Green

Football, Ifs

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Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank

Barry Davies

Football, Tanks

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It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

Barry Davies

Football, Scotland, Brazil

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And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

Clive Tyldesley

Football, Home, Argentina

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Quite literally, you would not have put your shirt on him two weeks ago.

Clive Tyldesley

Football, Two, Week

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If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

Clive Tyldesley

Football, Night, Long

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Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

Alan Parry

Football, Running, Twelve

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Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

George Hamilton

Football, Goal, Shay

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We don't really know what Iran are capable of when the gun is put to their head

George Hamilton

Football, Gun, Iran

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I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

Angus Loughran

Football, Want, Dutch

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Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing

Alan Green

Football, Playing Football

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They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

Barry Davies

Football, Records, Legs

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The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

George Hamilton

Football, Blanket, Comfortable

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What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

George Hamilton

Football, Eyebrows, Littles

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The midfield are like a chef, trying to prise open a stubborn oyster to get at the fleshy meat inside.

George Hamilton

Football, Oysters, Trying

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Alan Smith... very much a striker, by reputation... and by fact

Peter Drury

Football, Facts, Reputation

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They (Bayern Munich) lost in the semi-finals of the Champions League to Real Madrid last year, and the year before that were beaten in the final by Manchester United, so their European pedigree is second to none.

Simon Brotherton

Football, Real, Champions League

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There's no end to the stoppage of this drama

Alan Parry

Football, Drama, Ends

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I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Sorry, Kids, Home

Source: www.achievement.org

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They seem to be in total, if not complete control

Jon Champion

Football, Seems, Ifs

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