Soccer is more than a national sport. It's a national narrative.
Beppe Severgnini
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GIANFRANCO ZOLA It's our national sport, so this is the greatest.
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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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BOB GREENE Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime...
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JON HOLMES Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
JOHN ADAMS Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
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COBI JONES Those price drivers have all been increasing faster than college sticker prices. While tuition at a ...
TONY PALS This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace.
TERRY EBBERT This sounds like you’re saying that national security is more important than the Constitution.
CORY DOCTOROW She is a tremendous champion and she has not missed a national championships since 1992. She has bee...
DAVID RAITH It's more than just Oklahoma history. It's regional and national history.
BOB BLACKBURN I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld doe...
BARRY MCCAFFREY How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?
IVICA DACIC Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
NATIONAL LAMPOON Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
NATIONAL LAMPOON In women who are pregnant, it may make it more likely to have premature babies or have low birth wei...
NATIONAL CENTER For both mice and men, social status is important; for mice, losing to a dominant mouse usually mean...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
NATIONAL PRESS sock-it-to-me girl.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE Global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE Whether an officer should have a weapon when entering a court facility is a very controversial subje...
NATIONAL CENTER The continuing decline in the rate of cancer deaths once again affirms the progress we have made aga...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE most effective treatments for methamphetamine addiction are cognitive behavioral interventions - des...
NATIONAL INSTITUTE can cause catastrophe.
NATIONAL CENTER These genes are for risk, not for destiny,
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NATIONAL LEAGUE Since its enactment, insurance premiums in Texas have risen at less than half the national average,
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GARY BURKE national crisis that requires a national response.
KENT CONRAD A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front o...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.
NARENDRA MODI Since you have to involve more than one national authority, it is recommended to start the procedure...
KATHARINA VON SCHNURBEIN What is a threat to national security and who determines what is a threat to national security?
JOE BARKER For the national, and, indeed, the international media, this initiative is a hell of a lot more impo...
CHARLIE BROWN In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-t...
AYMAN ODEH Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Prince William's enthusiasm for football both as a player and a fan is well known and we believe his...
GEOFF THOMPSON America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global cu...
JEAN-JACQUES ANNAUD Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.
ERIC FELLNER National Socialism stands or falls by its Weltanschauung.
ALFRED ROSENBERG A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identit...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI We have a quieter local profile than we do a national one.
BILL KERR the legacy of Rosa Parks is more than just a success for the civil rights movement or for African-Am...
JOHN CONYERS Character interests me more than narrative. I make the narrative up as I go, which is more fun anywa...
MAC WELLMAN This does not represent a reduction in the U.S. commitment to Afghanistan. A significant part of our...
LAURENT FOX We are going to have national coaches and a national reporting line that represents the national phi...
CRAIG TILEY Show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You ca...
JACQUES ROGGE When he became coach, the national media was here for his first press conference, and it has continu...
GERALD MYERS Cricket has become the national sport again for the summer; it had been a dying sport for the past f...
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LUCA CORDERO DI MONTEZEMOLO When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more i...
DUFFY DAUGHERTY Bullying is a national epidemic.
MACKLEMORE America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Isla...
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and a fan is well known and we believ...
GEOFF THOMPSON I'm not dismayed that poetry's appeal is limited in scope. That's why we have National Poetry Month....
WILLIAM COLLINS We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
RIVERA SUN There is no national science just as there is no national
multiplication table; what is national is...
ANTON PAVLOVICH CHEKHOV It was not long before I was struck with the idea that base ball was just the game for a national sp...
HENRY CHADWICK You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligenc...
GIJS DE VRIES I would have to say they are the team to beat in the National League. They won the pennant in the Na...
ANDY PETTITTE This is a government which takes national security seriously and that's not just national security a...
TONY ABBOTT A distinction should be made that [American] football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a ...
JACK KEMP The Freedom Party and its leadership is a democratic party far removed from any totalitarian or nati...
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BRIAN ECKERT Iraqi national unity and preserve its Arab and Islamic identity.
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