“[To the media after a game] Well, we couldn't block…but we made up for it by not tackling.”
John McKay (1923–2001) American football player and coach
Press conference http://www.espnfc.com/team/united-states/660/blog/post/2657429/jurgen-klinsmann-under-scrutiny-after-bad-day-for-us (10 October 2015) <br class="br">2010s, 2015
“[To the media after a game] Well, we couldn't block…but we made up for it by not tackling.”
John McKay (1923–2001) American football player and coach
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
Comments on baseball in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (23 July 1846), as quoted in Walt Whitman Looks at the Schools (1950) by Florence Bernstein Freedman, p. 126-127 http://books.google.com/books?id=M34nK8SaiMcC&dq=Walt+Whitman+schools&lr=&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
Ian Holloway (1963) English association football player and manager
Happy Holloways - the crazy quotes which defined football in 2010, Goal.com, James, Daly, 2010-12-30, 2011-04-29 http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2010/12/30/2277614/happy-holloways-the-crazy-quotes-which-defined-football-in, <br class="br">Sourced quotes
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
English translation of pep talk given on August 21, 1971, after Hernandez' 6th-inning miscue—scored as a hit—had contributed significantly to Cincinnati's 6-3 come-from-behind victory over Pittsburgh http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1971/B08210CIN1971.htm, as quoted in "Playing Games: Bad Day in Cincy" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iG8mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Bm0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5765%2C1664013&dq=clemente-began-talk-spanish by Charley Feeney, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Tuesday, September 28, 1971), p. 23 <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
Aston Villa 1-2 Arsenal (1 December 2007) http://www.soccerway.com/news/2007/December/01/premiership-rivals-will-struggle-against-us-says-wenger/ <br class="br">Interviews
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Pretty Cool People interview (2007)
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
1832. Passions. Translation by Tim Parks. [Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300186338], p. 8
Zibaldone (1898)
Thierry Henry (1977) French association football player
" Thierry Henry player profile http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,278-377977,00.html, Times Online