John Motson (John Walker Motson) Quotes

The World Cup is a truly international event.

John Motson

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• I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Champion
  • Now
  • Event

• Well, we've made huge strides since the 1990 World Cup, USA '94, and obviously since '98. Unfortunately, those strides only register with the public once every four years.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • World
  • Years
  • World Cup

• Not everything has to be a couples' event.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Everything
  • Event
  • Couples

• If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Event
  • Foreign Policy

• International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Cooperation
  • International

• For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Cool
  • Musicians
  • Event

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• Daddy was hilarious. He could take the most mundane event and tell it so that we all on the floor laughing. He trained me in the joys of humor.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Humor
  • Hilarious
  • Event

• For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Nice
  • Something
  • Event

• We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • World
  • Best
  • Event

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• Nobody is offered a World Cup.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Nobody
  • World Cup

• I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Need
  • Event

• We’re from Germany but we grew up with English and American music which was such a strong inspiration for the young band. Very early on, in the Seventies, we went to England and France, to Japan and America, we toured and then became an international band. I think our music was never German, it’s always had this Anglo-American influence – we never tried to be a German band! We are Germans, yes, but not in our music. When we grew up, there was schlager music, this pop music kind of thing.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Band
  • Inspiration

• I've been really impressed with the way he has come back from the Under 21 World Cup and taken his form into club rugby.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • World
  • Way
  • Taken

• Sept. 11 was the most photographed event in the world. The media has shown it over and over again. Over time, artists have digested it. I think it's very important to see filmmakers' point of view. Why not now?

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • World
  • Event
  • Photographed

• Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Event
  • Preceding
  • Canadian Open

• Because I knew I had got success at Ranji level, I was confident I would get some success in international cricket too.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Levels
  • Cricket
  • International

• They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Team
  • World Cup

• I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Criticism
  • Wells
  • Century

• Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.

  

  Evan Thomas
  • Interesting
  • Writer
  • Discovery

• The World Cup is a truly international event.

  

  John Motson
  • Event
  • International
  • World Cup