The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham) — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal's moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, their best chance of doing it this way was against Arsenal, in the game they won 8–2. They only needed… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Football really felt like a private thing when I was in my teens because it wasn't on television, for a start, apart… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli sets his own house on fire, apparently after letting off fireworks in his bathroom. Two days later… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Few of us have chosen our clubs, they have simply been presented to us; and so as they slip from Second Division… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“(in those days, before Gazza, before cynical and meaningless pre-season tournaments which somehow still offer a methadone alternative to the real competitions… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: 'No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Manchester United would have retained the Premiership if they’d won this game – or, of course, if they’d won any of the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Absurdly, I haven't yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of people around me, is… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Thirty years on, things have changes to the extent that Wayne Rooney could comfortably afford to employ the best-paid banker in Britain… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Deaner ran down to the barrier separating the crowd from the pitch, and eventually persuaded the stewards that he had a part… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Is there a reason for the sudden fashion for the eight-goal tie? Maybe it’s because defending is hard, and boring, and thankless,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“For us it is not comparable, the FA Cup and Champions League,’ Arsène Wenger said before Arsenal played Leeds in the FA… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“During the game, we find endless ways of saying that our team needs to score goals while at the same time not… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything… — Nick Hornby Copy Share
