Emma Howe

“The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“Football is the ballet of the masses.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

“And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
― Pelé, Pele: The Autobiography