England Quotes - Page 28

• In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

  Jens Lehmann

  Soccer, Football, Mirrors

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• A player who dives and wins a penalty in Portugal, or Spain or Italy is considered clever, experienced, cunning, someone who understands the game. In England a player who wins a penalty like that is a cheat.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Clever

  "'Why go for 5-0 when 2-0 will do?' says Jose". Interview with David Shonfield, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2006.

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• Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Soccer, Football, Love Life

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• He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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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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• There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.

  A. A. Gill

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• England are very light up front. Eriksson's decision not to include Jermaine Defoe can be declared an error of judgment, regardless of Rooney's situation. The Swede should have forgone one of his nine midfield players; much will have to go wrong for Jermaine Jenas to get a game.

  Matt Dickinson

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Years

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• It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

  Derek Jacobi

  Television, Bigs, Wells

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• Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner, brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down!

  Jonathan Pearce

  Football, Gold, Yeast

  "The hardest FA Cup of all" by Barry Glendenning, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2003.

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• England are looking better value for 0-0.

  Barry Davies

  Football, Commentators, Values

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• Sir Richard Steele has observed, that there is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Rome, Differences, Atheism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.21

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• In England Giordano Bruno had given lectures on the plurality of worlds, and in that country had written, in Italian, his most important works. It added not a little to the exasperation against him, that he was perpetually declaiming against the insincerity, the impostures, of his persecutors - that wherever he went he found skepticism varnished over and concealed by hypocrisy; and that it was not against the belief of men, but against their pretended belief, that he was fighting; that he was struggling with an orthodoxy that had neither morality nor faith.

  John William Draper

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

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• The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Queens, Atheism, President

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• The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Queens, London Olympics

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• There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Country, Player, Suffering

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Home, Leaving, Dublin

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

  Bill Burr

  Fun, People, Jokes

  Interview with Bruce Dessau, www.beyondthejoke.co.uk. November 15, 2013.

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• One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming up here in England, but no one's going to have a sign in front of their house. Nobody's going to wear buttons. And in France, same thing. In America I like that people have signs and buttons and bumper stickers. Sometimes you'll smile at someone from a distance, then you'll get up close and you'll see their pin, and you're like, "Oh my god. I wasted a smile on you?"

  David Sedaris

  Distance, America, People

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• England have no McGrathish bowlers, there are hardly any McGrathish bowlers, except for [Glenn] McGrath

  Stuart Law

  Bowlers

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• To me, attacking football happens when Makelele gets the ball and passes it to the central defender who passes it to the right-back who comes forward and judges the situation. If he can do something he passes forward or runs with the ball, if not he gives it back to Makelele who builds the attack again. That is attacking football. In England attacking football is giving the ball to Makelele and having him hit it forward no matter what, even if everybody is marked.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Running, Giving

  "Louis van Gaal sacked by Manchester United - as it happened" by Simon Burnton, Gerard Meagher, Nick Miller, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2016.

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• Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

  Oscar Wilde

  Slave Owners, People, Being Real

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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