I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Soccer is a feast for the eyes that watch it and a joy for the body that plays it — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
A lot of leftists think it is soccer's fault that people don't think, while most rightists are convinced that soccer is a… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The technocracy of professional sport has managed to impose a soccer of lightning speed and brute strength: a soccer that negates joy,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
His legs have a mind of their own, his foot shoots by itself... Roberto Baggio is a big horsetail that flicks away… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“[Garrincha] was the one who would climb out of the training camp window because he heard from some far-off back alley call… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“Whoever believes physical size and tests of speed or strength have anything to do with a soccer player's prowess is sorely mistaken.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“The Stadium Have you ever entered an empty stadium? Try it. Stand in the middle of the field and listen. There is… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of our… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame.… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
From the weak nations' point of view, it is better if there are many powerful countries then if there are just a few. The… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“WALLS The Berlin Wall made the news every day. From morning till night we read, saw, heard: the Wall of Shame, the Wall of… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
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