Simon Barnes Quotes

• What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in

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  Future, Thinking, Years

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• Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty

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  Sports, Lying, Doe

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• The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

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  Ambition, Self, Comfort

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• The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed

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  Dresses, Green, Chips

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

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  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• Una entrada de violencia neurótica, de vigilancia excéntrica, de impetuosidad descerebrada y de salvajismo incontinente: fue una entrada extraordinaria, una obra maestra, que aseguró la victoria de Inglaterra en los Ashes [sobre la entrada de Pietersen en la victoria de los Ashes, 2005

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  Winning, Ashes, Eccentric

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• Si eres viejo y deseas volver a ser joven, aunque sólo sea por un momento, intenta identificar una libélula.

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  Wish, Trying, Dragonflies

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• Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure

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  Nature, Giving, Bird

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• A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

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  Nature, Luxury, Pockets

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• Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

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  Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, Mind Love, World

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• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."

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  Funny, Clever, Husband

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• We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

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  Meaningful, Nature, People

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• Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

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  Beautiful, Wonderful Nature, Horrible

  Simon Barnes (2011). “How to be a Bad Birdwatcher: To the Greater Glory of Life”, p.86, Short Books

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• Los humanos vivimos durante varios millones de años como seres totalmente salvajes: sólo en los últimos 10.000 inventamos la agricultura; sólo en los últimos dos siglos inventamos la industria. Somos una especie que ha pasado el 99% de su historia como cazadores-recolectores. No hemos tenido tiempo para que nuestras mentes inconscientes y nuestras necesidades inconscientes hayan cambiado. Si se quiere, nuestras almas no han cambiado, y esto es cierto tanto si creemos que las tenemos como si no.

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  Couple, Believe, Years

  Simon Barnes (2008). “How to be Wild”, p.39, Short Books

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• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

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  Deporte, Equipo, Dos

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• Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

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  Football, Drama, People

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• It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

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  Verdad de Perogrullo

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• La combinación de una prensa sensacionalista fuera de control y unos lectores que se emocionan con la destrucción del seleccionador inglés es algo que ningún otro país puede ofrecer. Scolari fue expulsado; la vida personal de Steve McClaren saltó a las portadas. Ninguno de los dos llegó a ocupar el cargo. Luego vino la falsa destitución de Sven-Göran Eriksson. Que un periódico desestabilice tan brillante y deliberadamente al seleccionador nacional en un año de Copa Mundial es algo que ninguna otra nación deportiva se plantearía.

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  Soccer, Football, Country

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• Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller thing and cursed the England strikers. I can only assume that Eriksson was never informed of this curse, otherwise he might have more than a 17-year-old up his sleeve.

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  Soccer, Football, Years

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• Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it

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  Nature, Enjoy Life, Bird

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

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  Soccer, Football, Analysis

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