Arthur Hopcraft Quotes
What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
Quotes to Explore
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.
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On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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Then you get into it, especially if you start talking about football, fighting and Muhammad Ali. Then the ladies get very bored and start delivering ultimatums.
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I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
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There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent.
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Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
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Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.
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There are few secrets in football. So execute.
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When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
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I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.
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What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.
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I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
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We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.
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What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.
