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The more the technocrats programme it down to the smallest detail, the more the powerful manipulate it, football continues to be the art of the unforeseeable. When you least expect it, the impossible occurs: the dwarf teaches the giant a lesson, and a scraggy, bow-legged black man makes an athlete sculpted in Greece look ridiculous.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Art Athlete Black Detail Down Dwarf Expect Football Giant Greece Impossible Least Lesson Look Makes Man Manipulate More Occurs Powerful Programme Ridiculous Smallest Teaches You

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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.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: About Country Damn Football Give Go God Good Hand Happens Love Miracle Move Performs Plead Pretty Stadiums Team Thanks Which World

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I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Better Combination Did Feelings Felt Football Girl Had Know Liked Notice Poetry Really Started Than Them Thought Writing

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My father was an all-American football player.

~Edwin Moses

Topics: All-American Father Football Football Player Player

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I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia.

~Elana Meyers

Topics: Atlanta Bit Born Bunch California Chicago Ended Father Finally Football Georgia Grew Little Little Bit Lived Places Played Up Younger I Was Born

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My dad was a football player, and I've been the same size since eighth grade, so I get how it can be hard when you don't fit in with the 'normal-size' girls, or your butt and legs are too big for normal-size jeans.

~Elana Meyers

Topics: Been Big Butt Dad Eighth Eighth Grade Fit Football Football Player Get Girl Grade Hard How Jeans Legs Player Same Since Size Too You Your

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I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: After Associate Became Charged Ended Football Football Match Former Match Metaphor Nationalist Sport Started Then Unrest Violence War Ways Yugoslavia

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As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Also Bad Catalyst Cause Civilisation Counter Football Good Kind Much Peace War Well

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I did everything in high school - I played tennis, I played basketball, I was in chorus, I was in the band, I even did the mascot senior year... I went to the football games, and at half-time I went across the field, met all the cheerleaders and got their numbers! The same year, I won prom king!

~Elijah Kelley

Topics: Across Band Basketball Chorus Did Even Everything Field Football Football Games Games Got High High School King Met Numbers Played Prom Same School Senior Senior Year Tennis Won Year

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For the longest time, I thought I was a boy. I really did. I wore boys' clothes, played tag football.

~Eliza Dushku

Topics: Boy Clothes Did Football Longest Longest Time Played Really Tag Thought Time Wore

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