Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
Irish soccer player and English football club manager.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
Irish writer.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
Mia Hamm
American female soccer player.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.
Mia Hamm
American female soccer player.

I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.
George Orwell
English writer.

Well here it is, in no particular order... the names of our new Avila Fish

-Gill-bert

-Tackle

-Pickles

-Tank

-Diver

-Yellow Card

-Ghost Tackler

-Chubby Penguin

-Eric #3

-Phantom Megger

Bill Shankley

•Some people think football is a matter of life and death – but I assure you, it’s much more serious than that

•He has football in his blood – the disappointed scout complained. You may be right, Shanks said, but it hasn’t reached his legs yet.