Asks Quote by Jorge Valdano

“What's an ambitious man but a player, Borgia—a player on a grand scale and the world his card game?”

— Hella S. Haasse

“The essential absurdity of football - that it has become so important - is nine-tenths of the poetry.”

— Phil Ball

“Agreed. We could set a trap for him. See if he goes for it.” “How would we do that?” Conversation between ‘Borge’ and ‘Jens’…

— Steen Langstrup

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win…

— Simon Barnes

“You see football isn’t just about 90 minutes, it‘s about passion and, yes, if you like, about life. We men will do things under…

— Dougie Brimson

“Almost nothing is as dull as guys who pretend to be soccer experts, they're almost as dull as the poetry ones. All this crazy…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“within that meticulous preparation there co-existed a high degree of expression, always bearing in mind that this is football, that players must think in…

— Guillem Balague

“Football is the poetry of a motion.”

— Pubudu Lasal Dissanayake

“It is important in football, as in any walk of life, to appear calm in times of crisis. To hide weaknesses. Pep told them…

— Guillem Balague

“I observed that when a footballer is about to make a threatening strike to score a goal, there comes a big shout from spectators…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Someone once tried to explain to me why football is so endlessly fascinating to its fans. It was all to do with unpredictability and…

— R.J. Bailey

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge…

— William H. Gass