Gus Van Sant Quotes

The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

I've missed a lot of football.

Each game, we try to win the three points, but every game, I want to score and help the team.

Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

What makes this game so delightful is that when both teams get the ball they are attacking their opponents goal.

In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

I think that could be perhaps a little misleading and even our statistics can mislead people at the times though they are not misleading in themselves. It is just that people get mislead

It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

It's a game everybody plays. If you see a man with a beard and holler "Beaver!" it's five points. And if you see a man with a moustache, it's onlI three points.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

Only in football is long-term injury the result not of accidents but of the game played properly.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

When I said they'd scored two goals, of course I meant they'd scored one.

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

It is the greatest game that I've ever been around. It'll continue to get better and be the greatest.

If you'd given me the choice of going out and beating four men and smashing a goal in from thirty yards against Liverpool or going to bed with Miss World, it would have been a difficult choice. Luckily, I had both.

I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.

At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

Man City needed something and when Johnson did something, something happened

I want to help the Brazilian National Team the best way possible, whether is with goals, assists or even a slide tackle, whatever.

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals