Soccer Mania

Famous quotes containing the words soccer and/or mania:

“If we were doing this in the Falklands they would love it. It’s part of our heritage. The British have always been fighting wars.”
—British soccer fan. quoted in Independent (London, Dec. 23, 1988)

“This mania of the mothers of the period, to be constantly in pursuit of a son-in-law.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)