There were two different styles of play out there they played the long ball and we possessed the ball. But they're very strong up top, so they're good at it. Out of the 90 minutes, we played a bad 10 minutes and they scored two goals.


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For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be....
ERIC ROTH
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer se...
ERIC BERNE
It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...
ERIC FONER
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn'...
ERIC IDLE
Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
ERIC HOFFER
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites --opposi...
ERIC HOFFER
There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmar...
ERIC HOFFER
The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.
ERIC HOFFER
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
ERIC HOFFER
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
ERIC HOFFER
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER
Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create someth...
ERIC HOFFER
Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.
ERIC MACKAY
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist...
ERIC HOFFER
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER
Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stu...
ERIC HOFFER
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anyth...
ERIC HOFFER
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
ERIC HOFFER
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need p...
ERIC HOFFER
One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of t...
ERIC HOFFER
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
ERIC JENSEN
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER
Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER
The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things o...
ERIC HOFFER
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim a...
ERIC HOFFER
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
ERIC HOFFER
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON
If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS
Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and...
ERIC HOFFER
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER
The effectiveness of a doctrine does not come from its meaning but from its certitude. No doctrine h...
ERIC HOFFER
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
ERIC HOFFER
There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society's ripeness for a mass movement than the pre...
ERIC HOFFER
The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword an...
ERIC HOFFER
We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER
Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER