Football poetry: great quotes about the beautiful game

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·14 July 2021

Football poetry: great quotes about the beautiful game

Football. To paraphrase Ibn Battuta, it will leave you speechless and then turn you into a storyteller.

Many words have been said by many people about our beautiful game, but some are nicer than others.

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Here are a few of our favourite football quotes:

Football, bloody hell!

When seagulls follow the trawler, it’s because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea!

Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Years have gone by and I’ve finally learned to accept myself for who I am: a beggar for good football. I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: A pretty move, for the love of God. And when good football happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don’t give a damn which team or country performs it.