SOCCER PHILOSOPHY

Albert Camus: "All that I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football"

Antonio Gramsci: "Football is a model of individualistic society. It demands initiative, competition and conflict. But is regulated by the unwritten rule of fair play"

Bob Marley: "Football is a part of I when I play the world wakes up around me"

Dennis Bergkamp: "Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought"

Lev Yashin: "The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save"

Nick Hornby: "I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it."

Pele: "Football is the beautiful game"

Sir Walter Scott: "Life itself is but a game of football"

Jacques Derrida: "Beyond the touchline there is nothing"

Jock Wallace: "Football is my religion"

Che Guevara: "It’s not just a simple game. It's a weapon of the revolution"

Friedrich Nietzsche: "My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal"

Karl Marx: "The goal passes through a series of phases independent of the will of man"

Sun Tzu: "Know your opponent and know yourself - make one hundred challenges without hazard"

Simone De Beauvoir: "In seeking a goal a woman aquires that magnificent possesion - the absolute"

Oscar Wilde: "Football is a game for rough girls, not suitable for delicate boys"

Machiavelli: "Each succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method"

Keirkegaard: "The unhappy individual is forever quite close to the goal and at the same time is some distrance from it"

Johan Cruyff: "Football is a game you play with your brain"

Jock Stein: "Football without fans is nothing"

Jean-Paul Satre: "In football everything is complicated by the presence of the other team"

Harold Wilson: "Have you noticed how we only win the world cup under a labour government"

Danny Blanchflower: "The game is about glory doing things in style"

Bill Shankly: "The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life"

Bill Shankly: "Train the right way. Help each other. It's a form of SOCIALISM without the politics"

Alf Garnett: "Football is a working class ballet"