Soccer World Cup

Famous quotes containing the words soccer, world and/or cup:

    “We want beans, not goals.”
    —Mexican steelworkers’ banner at opening ceremony of 1986 World Cup soccer championship.

    “I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “The cup of Morgan Fay is shattered.
    Life is a bitter sage,
    And we are weary infants
    In a palsied age.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)