A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
足球
Football
What you've got to realise is that footballers, and me in particular, have seen everything in the changing room. Everything. I've seen the manager kicking off with the players, the players kicking off with him, players fighting each other, managers fighting, everything.
你必须意识到，足球运动员，尤其是我，在更衣室里看到了一切。一切。我看到教练和球员们一起踢球，球员们和他一起踢球，球员们互相打架，教练们打架，什么都有。
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
人们说你应该在山顶上出去，但我很喜欢我的足球。罗比福勒完全一样:他不再为钱踢球了，他踢球是为了享受。如果这会让你痛苦的话，为什么要走到顶端呢?我只是想尽可能长时间地打球。
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.
从四年级开始，我就把足球当作一项近乎神话般的运动来热爱。对我来说，这款游戏甚至都不是基于现实。制服把你变成了战士。在一个团队中，身体战斗的神话，与元素的斗争，游戏的叙述。
Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.
大多数人会说安全是我最好的位置。对我来说，踢足球最大的挑战和最令人满意的事情是踢角球，因为角球比踢安全球更有挑战性。玩角球给我带来了最大的刺激和最大的头痛。
Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.
踢足球和橄榄球是萨摩亚的运动。这是教堂谈话的一部分。这是他们理发店和杂货店里谈话的一部分。这是每个人都知道和熟悉的。他们对你在这项运动中所受到的打击感到非常自豪。
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Every football player knows when his time is up.
每个足球运动员都知道自己的时间到了。
I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.
我认为如果球员们没有真正把事情做好，比如吃饭、休息或训练，他们会感到焦虑。如果你做了充分的准备，你就没有什么好担心的——这只是一场足球比赛。
It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
当你失去你的整个足球队时是不愉快的。
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
有些人对我有这样的印象:‘伙计，他在场上总是那么严肃。足球。足球。足球。”
The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
我那个时代唯一的足球运动员是那些真正热爱足球的人。他们这样做不是为了钱。那里没有多少钱。他们会无缘无故地踢足球。
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
爸爸对职业足球一无所知。