Cups Quotes - Page 37

• Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Finals, World, Want

  "Gerrard Sounds Clarion Call". www.theguardian.com. October 05, 2005.

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• I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Coffee, Thinking, Hot

  Robert Rauschenberg, Branden W. Joseph (2002). “Robert Rauschenberg”, p.97, MIT Press

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• As a non-Arsenal player I would say Ryan Giggs is my Premier League player of the decade because he has combined style with winning. Also I feel sorry he could never attend the World Cup, somewhere where people get a lot of compliments when they do well.

  Arsene Wenger

  Sorry, Winning, Player

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• In recent times Italy have been in a World Cup final every 12 years and I hope to still be there in 2018.

  Gianluigi Buffon

  Years, Finals, World

  TV programme "Football Italia", July 29, 2007.

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• The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

  Lu Tong

  Wall, Pain, Loneliness

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• We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Life, Sweet, Taste

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.315, Macmillan

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• I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.

  Lyle Lovett

  Coffee, Stage, Enjoy

  "LONG Tall LYLE". Interview with Joyce Maynard, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 1999.

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• Coffee has assumed a social meaning that goes far beyond the simple black brew in the cup. The worldwide coffee culture is more than a culture - it is a cult. There are usenet newsgroups on the subject, along with innumerable sites on the World Wide Web, and Starbucks outlets populate every street corner, vying for space with other coffeehouses and chains. And after all is said and done, it's just the pit of a berry from an Ethiopian shrub.

  Mark Pendergrast

  Coffee, Simple, Space

  "Quite a jolt for a simple berry" by Mark Pendergrast, www.cnn.com. August 4, 1999.

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• If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

  Andy Gray

  Winning, World, Wenger

  "There's too much football on TV, says Andy Gray!" by Alan Fraser, www.dailymail.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Tea, Drs, Problem

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.

  Matt Millen

  Winning, Roots, Super Bowl

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• Fifteen states across the country have gas prices that have dipped below $2. That means it's now cheaper to buy a gallon of liquefied dinosaurs than one cup of coffee at Starbucks.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Country, Coffee, Mean

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• Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Ebola, Years

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Eye, Russia

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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Soccer, Football, Moon

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• Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Jealous

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Country, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, New York, Winning

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• This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

  John Helm

  Football, Firsts, Denmark

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• Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

  Mike Ingham

  Football, Team, Winning

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