Cups Quotes - Page 35

• Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Ebola, Years

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• Vladimir Putin bribed a soccer official with a Picasso painting so he would support Russia's bid to host the 2018 World Cup. Putin was like, 'It wasn't Picasso, just picture of what his face would look like if he said no.' (Nose over here, eye up here, ear in forehead.)

  Jimmy Fallon

  Soccer, Eye, Russia

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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• There's more chance of me flying Concorde to the moon blindfolded than there is of you taking Wales to the World Cup.

  Robbie Savage

  Soccer, Football, Moon

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• Laddie, that man scored 200 goals in 270 matches - an incredible record - and he has won cup after cup as a manager. When he talks, pin back your ears.

  Bill Shankly

  Soccer, Football, Men

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• I don't have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Football, Jealous

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• He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

  Gary Lineker

  Soccer, Football, Winning

  " My granny could have coached Brazil, says Lineker" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2006.

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• The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other country can offer. Scolari was driven out; Steve McClaren's personal life made the front pages. Neither of them even held the job. Then there was the fake-sheikhing of Sven-Göran Eriksson. That a newspaper should so brilliantly and deliberately destabilise the national head coach in a World Cup year is something no other sporting nation would consider.

  Simon Barnes

  Soccer, Football, Country

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• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Country, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

  Mario Lemieux

  Sports, Thinking, Years

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• If I had to compare any of the two, I'd compare the first one in Edmonton, the first one here in New York because it had been so long in New York since we had won. Obviously, being the first time to ever win the cup in Edmonton, they were fairly similar in that regard.

  Mark Messier

  Sports, New York, Winning

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• This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.

  John Helm

  Football, Firsts, Denmark

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• Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

  Mike Ingham

  Football, Team, Winning

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• We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

  Steve Yzerman

  Running, Mistake, Winning

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• What we need to do is stop global warming; that's the only way to stop your peanut butter cups from melting... And if that doesn't do the trick, then put them in the fridge... Or better yet, eat them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Peanut Butter, Needs, Melting

  "Rush Baby on Reese’s Melting Ad". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. August 4, 2008.

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• The peerless cup afloat
  Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
  Swims bearing high above her head.

  Robert Browning

  Lakes, Nymphs, Swim

  Robert Browning (1835). “Paracelsus”, p.191

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• They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

  Sepp Blatter

  Team, World, World Cup

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• If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wine, Imagination, Madness

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• I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.

  Henry James

  Taste, Fleeting, Savannah

  Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.707, Library of America

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• The shot of Kapil Dev kissing the World Cup and hordes of Indian fans all over at Lord's is etched in my memory. Every Indian is proud of that victory, and every Indian player who has played the World Cup after that '83 win wants to bring the Cup home.

  Suresh Raina

  Memories, Home, Kissing

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• I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity.

  Pope Francis

  Wish, World, Spirit

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 12, 2014.

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• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  World, Levels, Protection

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• Illness is merely the bitter, which a wise Providence mingles in the cup of life.

  James Holman

  Wise, Bitter, Illness

  James Holman (1840). “Travels in Madeira, Sierra Leone, Teneriffe, St. Jago, Cape Coast, Fernando Po, Princes Island, Etc. Etc”, p.10

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• Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Two, Tea, Tin

  Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House

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• We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea never becomes apparent until you do it. Sometimes this idea can be the smallest thing in the world, a little flame that you hunch over and cup with your hand, and pray will not be extinguished by all the storm that howls about it. If you could hold onto that flame, great things could construct around it, that are massive and powerful and world changing, all held up by the tiniest of ideas.

  Nick Cave

  Powerful, Flames, Hands

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