A Quote by Sven-Goran Eriksson

Football is beautiful and cruel.

Sven-Goran Eriksson

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Beautiful Cruel Football

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Sven-Goran Eriksson
Swedish - Manager
Born: February 5, 1948

In football, we never know what will happen. That's why football is so beautiful, and a lot of people love football.

Lucas Moura

Football is beautiful. Football is beautiful because whether you win, draw, or lose, you can go and shake your opponent's hand, whether they're white or black or red or blue.

Samuel Eto'o

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Benjamin Britten

Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don’t punish me for saying it. I think you know you’re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don’t want to run errands for someone cruel.

Catherynne M. Valente

Football's cruel sometimes.

Tim Howard

Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.

Alfred Stieglitz

Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.

Diego Forlan

Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.

Petr Cech

I like to have the ball and play beautiful football. That's what the people want to see and what makes football so special.

Ilkay Gundogan

The main thing is to be in the quarter-finals and it doesn't matter if you play beautiful football or if you're playing ugly football, you have to win.

Jose Fonte

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

Bill Walsh

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

Kate Cann

I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.

Diego Maradona

We have professional football, but we also have a beautiful game which, wherever you go, can be used as a social tool for change. Football has an unmatchable power.