Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. K. Rowling

He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water though it wasn't bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced. One tap gushed pink and blue bubbles the size of footballs; another poured ice-white foam so thick that Harry thought it would have supported his weight if he'd cared to test it; a third sent heavily perfumed purple clouds hovering over the surface of the water. Harry amused himself for a while turning the taps on and off, particularly enjoying the effect of one whose jet bounced off the surface of the water in large arcs.

H. L. Mencken

College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.

J. R. Moehringer

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

Jessica Simpson

There is only one, believe it or not. I did get knocked up by a baller. A big football player.

Jerry Angelo

That 'hundreds and hundreds' was taken totally out of context. When I was making a point to this person, I was making a point that over my 31 years in the National Football League I've seen a lot of changes. There were hundreds and hundreds of things over those years that I've seen that have gotten better. Domestic violence is one of those.

Jeanne Moreau

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Glenn Roeder

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

Franco Harris

Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.

Ian Holloway

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.

Ian Holloway

Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.

Ian Holloway

It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

Ian Holloway

I am more than happy at Blackpool and I am afraid the chairman will need a hell of a tub of cream to get rid of me - I'm like a bad rash and not easily curable.

Ian Holloway

In football you need to have everything in your cake mix to make the cake taste right. One little bit of ingredient that Tony Pulis uses in his cake gets talked about all the time is Rory's throw. Call that cinnamon and he's got a cinnamon flavoured cake.

Ian Holloway

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Ian Holloway

I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark.

Ian Holloway

The dietician is going to get rid of that when he comes in. Although, first, we've got to get a dietician.

Ian Holloway

This club needs an impetus of energy - but I just feel tired to be honest. I'm worn out.

Ian Holloway

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

Ian Holloway

You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.

Ian Holloway

I might be in a bit of a Skoda garage rather than a Mercedes garage, but I am telling you some old bangers don't half polish up great.

Ian Holloway

My wife runs the house much better than I could so I think she could be a linesman or a referee or even a football manager and that's the truth.

Ian Holloway

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

Ian Holloway

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.

Ian Holloway

To put it in gentleman's terms, if you've been out for a night and you're looking for a young lady and you pull one, you've done what you set out to do. We didn't look our best today but we pulled. Some weeks the lady is good looking and some weeks she's not. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She may not have been the best looking lady we ended up taking home but it was still very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much and let's have coffee.

Ian Mcewan

Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes.

Ian Brown

...a tale of too many cooks in the defence.

Ian Brown

It's Denmark 3 Denmark 0...

Ian Brown

Knight saved it with his back arm

Hugh MacDiarmid

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Homer

The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.

If it happens two or three years in a row, obviously there's a problem, ... It's hard to think about that scenario playing out. There's a lot of football left to play, but if it does, they have to look at the system.

If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.

Koren Robinson

If I'm a better man than I am a football player, well, that's just fine.