Commentators Quotes - Page 6

• No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.

  Rob Hawthorne

  Football, Games, Switzerland

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• The ageless Teddy Sheringham, 37 now.

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Ageless, Teddy

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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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• 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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• 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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• It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

  Jock Brown

  Soccer, Football, Sides

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• If it had gone in, it would have been a goal.

  Joe Royle

  Football, Goal, Gone

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• Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

  George Crabbe

  Love, Running, Dark

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.145

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• Rangers are definitely on the back heel now

  Archie Macpherson

  Football, Rangers, Heels

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• The crowd...a cacophony of colour

  Peter Drury

  Football, Cacophony, Crowds

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• Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

  Peter Drury

  Football, Four, All Alone

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• My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.

  Elie Wiesel

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off

  George Hamilton

  Football, Captains, Managers

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• When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

  George Hamilton

  Football, Two, Goal

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• Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Real, Giving, People

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• He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Trying, Chance

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• The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

  Susan Sontag

  Party, Reality, Self

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Macmillan

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• Ardiles strokes the ball like it was a part of his anatomy.

  Jimmy Magee

  Football, Balls, Strokes

  Jimmy Magee, Jason O'Toole (2012). “Memory Man: The Life and Sporting Times of Jimmy Magee: Sports trivia from the 'Memory Man' Jimmy Magee”, p.136, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Anelka was travelling so fast that he couldn't keep his own feet

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Feet

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• As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Tick, Belgium

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• A smoked salmon sandwich of a football match if ever there has been one.

  Peter Drury

  Football, Salmon, Sandwiches

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• ...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.

  Ian Darke

  Football, Feet, Balls

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• It's as if there's a magnet on the outside of the posts and bar.

  John Helm

  Football, Bars, Magnet

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• He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Balls, Passing

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• A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.

  Barry Davies

  Football

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