Commentators Quotes - Page 5

• Liverpool are currently halfway through an unbeaten twelve-match run

  Alan Parry

  Football, Running, Twelve

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• They seem to be in total, if not complete control

  Jon Champion

  Football, Seems, Ifs

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• That shot was going goalboundward

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Shots

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• He runs a very tightly knit ship

  Rob Hawthorne

  Football, Running, Ships

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• The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Taught Us, Mind

  Harriet Martineau, Linda H. Peterson (2007). “Autobiography”, Broadview Pr

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• The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now.

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Ageless, Teddy

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• Giggs drops deep into that Sheringham position where he can turn and ride defenders.

  Martin Tyler

  Football, Giggs, Turns

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• Part of the experience of enjoying a tennis match on TV is listening to the observations of an expert commentator -- one who knows the sport, has a genuine passion for the game, respects the viewers' intelligence, knows when to talk and when to keep quiet, can make you laugh and is not afraid to call a spade a spade.

  Dave McPherson

  Sports, Passion, Games

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• That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Legs, Goalkeepers

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• Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Real, Writing, Letters

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• Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

  Richard Perle

  War, Men, Ideas

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• We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys (particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a technical matter.

  Jeff Cooper

  Wise, Men, Hysteria

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• I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

  Conrad Black

  Issues, Perception, Credibility

  Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.517, Encounter Books

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• No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

  Dennis Prager

  Wings, May, Racist

  Dennis Prager (2015). “Dennis Prager: Volume I”, p.79, Creators Publishing

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• What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.

  Ann Coulter

  Moving, Mind, Trying

  "Ann Coulter: The "Never Trust a Liberal over 3" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, m.thetimesweekly.com. November 20, 2013.

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• Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

  Barry Davies

  Football, Games, Celtic

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• Forest have now lost six matches without winning.

  David Coleman

  Soccer, Football, Winning

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• I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Thinking, People

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
  How commentators each dark passage shun,
  And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

  Edward Young

  Dark, Science, Sun

  'Love of Fame: The Universal Passion' (1725-8) Satire 7, l. 97.

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• I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.

  Pablo Francisco

  Sports, Thinking, Games

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas.

  Mary Fulbrook

  History, Democracy, Republic

  Mary Fulbrook (2014). “A History of Germany 1918-2014: The Divided Nation”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was the only 'religious nut' - his term for a believer - in his stable of regular reviewers.

  Garry Wills

  Christian, Religious, Book

  Garry Wills (2013). “Under God”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• The ball has broken 50-50 for Keegan

  David Coleman

  Football, Broken, Balls

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• Both of the Villa scorers were born in Liverpool, as was the Villa manager, who was born in Birkenhead.

  David Coleman

  Football, Villa, Born

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• A full-blooded encounter for a number of reasons, many of them illegitimate.

  Jon Champion

  Football, Numbers, Encounters

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