{"quotes":[{"text":"Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.","author":"Simon Kuper","tags":["fan","soccer","sports"],"id":4881,"author_id":"Simon+Kuper"},{"text":"I thought, if we could just come together as a community, even if that just meant playing soccer together, that could be the beginning of something good. Coming together as a community, as a people, creates more power than exists when individuals are fighting each other for scraps. Soccer has always brought people together. Soccer was where I would begin.","author":"Kennedy Odede","tags":["community","poverty","soccer"],"id":6542,"author_id":"Kennedy+Odede"},{"text":"Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.","author":"Bill Shankly","tags":["life","football","soccer "],"id":7667,"author_id":"Bill+Shankly"},{"text":"Jane turned and looked at Rob who was still staring into space with a crazed look on his face. ‘Are you listening to this?’ she said as she thumped him on the arm. Rob turned to her and broke into a broad grin. ‘Listening to what?’ he laughed. ‘I’m loaded. I don’t have to listen to anything!’‘Yes you do,’ said England calmly. ‘You have to listen very carefully.","author":"Dougie Brimson","tags":["comedy","football","humour","soccer"],"id":7811,"author_id":"Dougie+Brimson"},{"text":"A man's attraction towards a woman is propelled by his innate feelings, while a woman is more sort of involved in a mental game, an impossible preposition of sorts, its like playing soccer in a cricket ground!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["cricket","love","love","man","psychology-of-love","soccer","woman"],"id":13533,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"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 the umbrella of football fandom that we would never dream of doing in any other sphere of life, and within the pages that follow I will try and explain why.","author":"Dougie Brimson","tags":["fans","football","humour","soccer"],"id":26411,"author_id":"Dougie+Brimson"},{"text":"Women‘s football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn’t and they don’t. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.","author":"Dougie Brimson","tags":["fans","football","soccer","women"],"id":29332,"author_id":"Dougie+Brimson"},{"text":"Okay, on my first night, he tried to chat me up. You know how the story goes. ‘You have the most beautiful eyes, I’m very rich, want to see my bedroom?’ Blah, blah, blah.”“And because you turned him down, he’s more determined than ever,” Will guessed, with amazing accuracy. “You did turn him down, right?”“Of course,” I told him, insulted by the insinuation I would drop my knickers for a glass of wine. “Do you think I’d risk my job for a quick tumble in the sheets with him?","author":"Kyra Lennon","tags":["game-on","humor","kyra-lennon","new-adult","soccer"],"id":30524,"author_id":"Kyra+Lennon"},{"text":"For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.","author":"Chris Anderson","tags":["beheading","chosen","democracy","great-men","leaders","liberty","soccer","the-french","voltaire"],"id":38709,"author_id":"Chris+Anderson"},{"text":"I have some cool talents. I'm really flexible and can do all sorts of twisted yoga positions. And I'm a big athlete and especially love soccer.","author":"Genevieve Padalecki","tags":["love","soccer","talents "],"id":41617,"author_id":"Genevieve+Padalecki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":80,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}