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Quotes About Passes

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
~ William Watson
I can score goals and be dangerous with my passes.
~ Toni Kroos
As I've become a professional, I just feel more pressure to produce, to score goals and get assists. I know I'm a good player, but it gives evidence of how good you are if you're able to look at how many passes you've made in a game or how many chances you create. It's in the books. It's become more about stats as I've become a professional.
~ Clint Dempsey
The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.
~ Aymeric Laporte
I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.
~ Eric Bledsoe
During a training session, Ibra made a mess of five consecutive passes and no-one told him anything. When I made a mess of one, he shouted at me. We had an exchange of words. After training, he came to apologise, and told me it was the first time in his life that he'd been wrong.
~ Thiago Silva
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.
~ Patrick Beverley
I was a procrastinator and a bookworm but I passed all my School Certificate exams, the equivalent of O-levels; I got three distinctions, three honours and three good passes.
~ June Brown
We always talk about experience and maturing, the best thing that can happen to a footballer is the game slows down for them. All of a sudden, they can see things, they can see passes, they can see space, the whole game opens up for them.
~ Steve Nicol
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
~ John le Carre
I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
~ Raymond Chandler
History is thorough, and passes through many phases when it bears an old figure to the grave. The last phase of a world historical figure is its comedy.
~ Karl Marx
Without opium, plans, marriages and journeys appear to me just as foolish as if someone falling out of a window were to hope to make friends with the occupants of the room before which he passes.
~ Jean Cocteau
The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?
~ Frank Carson
Fear is a state of mind. There is nothing real about it. Welcome it in, 60 seconds passes, and as your guest politely ask it to leave. It will leave every single time!!
~ Christopher Saleh
No one makes love like they make a wall or a house. They catch it like a cold. It makes them miserable and then it passes, and pretending otherwise is the road to hell.
~ Richard Flanagan
In Athens, you'll save money buying the Acropolis combo-ticket, which covers a number of ancient sites (buy at a less-crowded site to save time). City transit passes (for multiple rides or all-day usage) decrease your cost per ride.
~ Rick Steves
With Jorginho it depends what type of football you want to play. If you want to play possession where you have the ball all the time and you play a lot of passes, there are not many as good as him around. If you ask Jorginho to cover 50 metres of pitch in width and get all the balls back, it's going to be difficult.
~ Gianfranco Zola
Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.
~ Claudio Ranieri
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
~ Ilkay Gundogan
Trouble is," Mr. Q. breathed, "you open a channel . . . now it exists. Hard to regulate what . . . passes through or . . . what direction it . . . moves." Dexter said nothing. What the hell was he getting at? "This may be your . . . blind spot.
~ Jennifer Egan
Memory seems as faulty, as misunderstood and misguided, as every other thought or spasm that passes through us.
~ Amy Bloom
The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Personally, I always try to focus on the little things in my game. As a defender and attacking outside back, I continuously work on completing passes, not being too predictable going forward into the attack, good services into the box, good positioning and footwork.
~ Ali Krieger