After missing a penalty kick, in 2005.
Source: esportes.terra.
Goleiro sempre tem mérito. Mas dessa vez não. Do jeito que bati, até a minha mãe pegava.
Sobre pênalti perdido no Campeonato Brasileiro de 2005. http://www.perestroika.com.br/2008/04/16/sentiremos-saudades/
“I often got a belt from my mother with a wet dish cloth for kicking a ball through a window.”
A disagreement with Oisín McConville over the best gifts to give loved ones at half-time during the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. Quoted in The Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/tv-view-dublin-look-towards-seventh-heaven-as-mayo-s-hell-lingers-on-1.4441949 in December 2020
“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough.”
Speaking of newspaper critics, as quoted in Mother of all the Behans: The story of Kathleen Behan as told to Brian Behan (1984) by Kathleen Behan and Brian Behan, p. 119
“If people spit in my face, my response is a kick to the balls. I don't recommend that to others.”
About responding to abuse on the internet, as quoted in Ingvild Berg, "Kurser seg for å takle ekstreme meninger på nett" ("Takes courses for tackling extreme opinions on the web",) http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Kurser-seg-for--takle-ekstreme-meninger-p-nett-6705587.html#.T55Ym-LI_3I Aftenposten, 24 November 2011.
As quoted in “Clouter Clemente: Popular Buc; Rifle-Armed Flyhawk Aims At Second Bat Crown”
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1964</big>
“I think that’s been a good kick of the ball.”
Speaking from his official residence at Bute House in Edinburgh after the Scottish independence referendum, 2014. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-29277527 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-insists-scotland-can-4291189 (19 September 2014)
