A Quote by Nick Hornby

The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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Nick Hornby
English - Writer
Born: April 17, 1957

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

Nick Hornby

It bothers me that the average fan, the average sportswriter for that matter, pays so much attention to what's in a box score. A box score does not properly represent the most important thing - team play. It shows some guy scoring 27 points, but it doesn't show that my 27-point man let his guy score 30.

Al McGuire

No man, with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. - Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are "living springs of water, and three-score and ten palms."

John Brown

I'm not particularly a football fan, but I live in north London, and I can hear when Arsenal score, and it's fantastically exciting. Down the road you can hear the roar.

Mike Newell

My natural state is one that's affected by the shortage of dopamine production in my brain. So my natural state is to be halting and at times tremulous and kind of just physically disturbed. I mean, that's my natural state, given the situation in my brain. But I'm always as happy either way. And so when it comes to me, body language lies.

Michael J. Fox

I'd always like to score at Goodison Park, being an Everton fan growing up. Anfield as well would be a nice place to score.

Adam Lallana

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

Plautus

When I was a little bitty boy, I was a fan of boxing. But in Louisiana, it's football, football, football, and then everything else.

James Carville

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

Rex Ryan

I'm not a Packers fan. I just like football. I do respect those guys. You respect great football. I'm a Cowboys fan, or I was a Cowboys fan. You just respect great football.

Patrick Mahomes

Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.

Ilona Andrews

You have to shoot, to want to score goals no matter how. Just score that goal! You can't be afraid to miss.

Dennis Bergkamp

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

Rajneesh

Celebration is without any cause. Celebration is simply because we are. We are made out of the stuff called celebration.That's our natural state - to celebrate - as natural as it is for the trees to bloom, for birds to sing, for rivers to flow to the ocean. Celebration is a natural state.

Rajneesh

I got to have more of those type of games where I'm just engaged. It doesn't matter the score or how many points I score.