Quotes – Soccerwidow

Best 50 Controversial and Inspirational Soccer Quotes

Soccerwidow — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:51:07 +0000

Whether looking for motivational and inspirational soccer quotes, or controversial and critical words about the beautiful game of football, then you should find something of interest in the following 50 quotes by famous people, soccer lovers or otherwise…

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For the purist, football is “football”, but for our American friends, the term “soccer” is equally as acceptable and interchangeable.

To everyone, we hope you enjoy our feast of football/soccer quotes!

Football is the ballet of the masses.
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
(1906-1975: Russian composer and pianist)

Some people tell me
that we professional players
are soccer slaves.
Well, if this is slavery,
give me a life sentence.
Sir Robert “Bobby” Charlton
(*1937: former English footballer; still the all-time
highest goalscorer for England and Manchester United)

In his life,
a man can change wives,
political parties or religions
but he cannot change
his favourite soccer team.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano
(*1940: Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist)

You don’t have to have been
a horse to be a jockey.
Arrigo Sacchi
(*1946: former manager of title winning AC Milan,
who never kicked a ball professionally)

If you’re attacking,
you don’t get as tired
as when you’re chasing.
Kyle Rote, Jr.
(*1950: retired American soccer striker)

I don’t believe skill was,
or ever will be,
the result of coaches.
It is a result of a love affair
between the child and the ball.
Roy Maurice Keane
(*1971: former captain of Ireland and Manchester United)

Soccer riots kill,
at most, tens.
Intellectuals’ ideological riots
sometimes kill millions.
John Jay McCarthy
(1857-1943: Nebraska Republican politician)

To say that these men
paid their shillings
to watch twenty-two hirelings
kick a ball
is merely to say
that a violin is wood and catgut,
and that Hamlet
is so much paper and ink.
John Boynton Priestley
(1894-1984: better known as J. B. Priestley;
English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster)

The ball is round,
the game lasts ninety minutes,
and everything else is just theory.
Josef “Sepp” Herberger
(1897-1977: German football player and manager)

Top 50 Quotes about Gambling, Luck and Money

Soccerwidow — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 10:15:07 +0000

This compilation contains some of the best quotes we could find related to gambling, luck and money.

Since humans have existed they have gambled away their fortunes, and it is probably the fate of man to continue gambling so long as there is anything left to bet on…

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Gambling and Luck Quotations

These quotations are sorted chronologically and appear quite representative of gambling as it has developed over the last 2,000 years or more…

Luck is what happens
when preparation meets opportunity.
Seneca
(ca. 4 BC – 65 AD; Roman philosopher, dramatist, and writer)

Quit while you’re ahead.
All the best gamblers do.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
(1601-1658; Spanish Jesuit, writer, and philosopher)

By gaming we lose both
our time and treasure:
two things most precious
to the life of man.
Owen Feltham
(1602-1668; English essay writer)

If you would be wealthy,
think of saving
as well as getting.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790; American politician, scientist, inventor, and statesman)

I’m a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826; American third president of the United States)

If you must play,
decide upon three things at the start:
the rules of the game,
the stakes,
and the quitting time.
Chinese Proverb

The only sure thing about luck is
that it will change.
Bret Harte
(1836-1902; American author and poet)

True luck consists not
in holding the best
of the cards at the table;
luckiest is
he who knows
just when to rise and go home.
John Milton Hay
(1838-1905, American statesman, diplomat, author, and journalist)

The gambling known as business
looks with austere disfavor
upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914; American journalist, writer, fabulist, and satirist)

Create Demand for Your Products – Demand Creation and Lead Generation

Soccerwidow — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 13:22:09 +0000

There is always a reason for a product not selling well. There may be no real need for it, no money within your currently targeted audience, no desire to have the product, or simply no trust in your services.

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Before abandoning products that are not selling well, it is advisable to try increasing demand for them. Move the masses to buy your product or service!

Read what other professional bloggers and website owners say about demand creation…

You may have designed an exceptionally creative website,
written compelling content,
or developed a useful Web application.
But if your work cannot be located
by your target audience, it’s all for naught.
After all, we can’t appreciate what we can’t find.
Aarron Walter
Building Findable Websites, page 2

Be very clear on your preferred client
and understand the underlying problems not just the symptoms.
Lisa Mininni
5 Defining Elements for Creating Demand for Your Products and Services

Most people who hear about a product remain fence-sitters,
unwilling to try or buy until a trigger moves them to act.
Some great products failed to take off
because their creators didn’t figure out
how to overcome consumer inertia.
Great demand creators constantly
search for the right triggers,
always experimenting until they get a response.
Adrian Slywotzky
The six Secrets of Demand Creation

Many products fail to connect with customers on an emotional level. Newly developed products, which are not yet established household names, struggle to gain recognition. Customers may not realise the benefits from, or understand the necessity of, possessing them.

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The success of a page should be measured by one criteria:
Does the visitor do what you want them to do?
Peter Da Vanzo
There Is More To Optimization Than SEO

Before setting out to sell,
ensure you have a good sense of what you’re aiming to achieve.
Ryan Starr
How-to: Creating demand for a new product or service in the social media age

The business owner is uniquely unqualified
to see his company or product objectively.
Too much product knowledge leads him
to answer questions no one is asking.
John Spence
12 Advertising Blunders to Avoid

It’s hard to read the label
when you’re inside the bottle.
Sometimes it helps to bring in an objective outsider
to give you some perspective from a different viewpoint.
Roy H. Williams
12 Most Common Mistakes in Advertising

Link Building and Back Links – What professional SEO Experts say

Soccerwidow — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 15:49:49 +0000

Do you feel uneasy at the thought of having to “build links”? If you do, your tactical approach to link building may need re-adjusting.

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Try to think about building links as a way of connecting to ‘colleagues’ working within the same industry. This mindset will serve you far better than just spamming blogs for links; the effects will be longer lasting, far more genuine, and ultimately fruitful.

Read what leading SEO experts and professionals say about back-linking…

Don’t build links. Build relationships.
Neil Patel
The advanced guide to Link Building
(co-founder of Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics)

If I added up all of the referrals from domains
that sent less than 4 people a week to my site,
together they would be my fourth largest source of traffic.
Wendy Piersall
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Lots of Link Love

I think many people underrate the value
of brand building in terms of link acquisition.
When you become part of the casual conversation
people will link to you out of simple convenience
because they remember your name and don’t have to go
searching for someone else’s name.
Michael Martinez
Positive, Forward-looking Methods of Acquiring Links
(Building and promoting websites since 1996)

If you’re trying to build links
through blog comments you’re probably doing it wrong.
I would get back to domain relevance
over individual page relevance…
Your energy would be a lot better spent
creating relationships with other bloggers.
Dave Snyder
Long Term Link Building: What’s The Best Strategy?

To succeed in the world of SEO, it is crucial to understand that search algorithms are an opportunity to flourish – but this can only be achieved through ethical search engine optimisation practices, and certainly not by resorting to mediocre back-linking strategies.

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Always remember that Google engineers work hard to remove poor content and inadequate reader experience from their top searches.

Websites don’t link to other websites.
People point to other people’s work.
Lyndon Antcliff – cornwallseo.com

There’s been so much fear pushed around the web
about reciprocal link exchanges and link trading programs
that the message has been muddled up
into the completely nonsensical
“never link to someone who links to you”.
To my mind, that’s a touch of lunacy.
Rand Fishkin
5 Common Pieces of SEO Advice I Disagree With

A web page without links is like an uncharted island.
It’s sitting there, right in the middle of the ocean,
but most people don’t know it’s there.
The island could be littered with diamonds.
The plant that grows there
might heal every disease known to humans.
None of that matters if no one knows
the island is there.
Jerri L. LedFord
SEO Search Engine Optimization Bible, page 260