Jimmy Magee quotes

“Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.”
-- Jimmy Magee

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“Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.”
-- Jimmy Magee

Source : Jimmy Magee, Jason O'Toole (2012). “Memory Man: The Life and Sporting Times of Jimmy Magee: Sports trivia from the 'Memory Man' Jimmy Magee”, p.136, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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“The reason for the delay to the kick-off is because it's not yet kick-off time”
-- Jimmy Magee

#Football Quotes #Delay Quotes #Reason Quotes

“He's like a terrier, Scholes, he won't let go - even the postman would be afraid of him.”
-- Jimmy Magee

#Letting Go Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Scholes Quotes

“Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.”

“I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

“I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.”

“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”

“The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.”

Source : Song: Princess Olivia

“According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.”

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”

“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes

“The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.”

Source : "The Dirt on Aaron Paul". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. July 12, 2012.