The Road to the Promised Land: Opening Quotes

Those are various quotes that open up the different chapters in The Road to the Promised Land. They usually set the tone before the chapter starts.
==Prologue==
"Life... It can be difficult. You know that. We all need someone to rely on... Someone who's going to be there... Someone who's going to make you feel like you belong... Someone constant. It's ecstasy, anguish, joy, and despair. It's part of our history, part of our country, and it will be part of our future. It's theatre, art, war, and love. It should be predictable... but never is. It's a feeling that can't be explained, but we spend our lives explaining it. It's our religion. We do not apologize for it, we do not deny it. They're our team, our family, and our life... Football." – Sean Bean (Actor and football fan, 1997).
==Chapter 10==
"Cognitio Sapientia Humanitas (Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity)" - Motto of the University of Manchester.
==Chapter 21==
"The derby day in Manchester is always a particular day. The city is cut in two. The Blues and the Reds invade the streets. And if your club wins, then the city belongs to you." – Éric Cantona (Former Manchester United player and captain, 1992-1997).
==Chapter 27==
"The FA Cup have been played since 1871. England's Super Bowl." – Clive Tyldesley (Sports broadcaster).
"It has a certain magic to it. A knockout domestic competition that every club in the country can enter. Not just the professional clubs, little amateur clubs all around the country take part."– Gary Lineker (1991 FA Cup champion).
==Chapter 31==
"Never forget the importance of history..." – Author unknown.
"It's one of those incidents that you can remember exactly where you were, and I can remember listening to the radio in my parents' room in Oxford and bursting into tears. And I think, if you're a United fan or you weren't a United fan, the nation wept that day." – Jim Rosenthal (Sports broadcaster).
==Chapter 32==
"I had a lot of hatred for Arsenal because I knew they were big rivals. I can't think of any other word that springs to mind when I was going into battle with Arsenal. Absolute hatred was the word." – Roy Keane (Former Manchester United player and captain, 1993-2005).
"If I play against him [Roy Keane], I would be concentrated, all the week. So I would prepare myself in a different way maybe because I still have this game in mind, and I still have how to play against him in my mind." – Patrick Vieira (Former Arsenal player and captain, 1996-2005).
"It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize. He's that type of person." – Sir Alex Ferguson (Former Manchester United manager, 1986-2013).
"Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality." – Arsène Wenger (Former Arsenal manager, 1996-2018).
"I'll ****ing see you out there, you ****! I'll see you out there!" – Roy Keane to Patrick Vieira (before the match on February 1, 2005).
==Chapter 33==
"I mean, Martin Keown from England, and they were all... And David Seaman, they were all great lads. I really like them. But on the pitch, there was just a real hatred." – Nicky Butt (Former Manchester United player, 1992-2004).
"At times, it wasn't too much of a football game. At times, it was more of a battle than a game. It always had an argument. It always had crazy moments, crazy goals, last-minute goals, but it was THE game for the media, for the fans, TV, managers, whatever." – Thierry Henry (Former Arsenal player, 1999-2007).
"I think it was a disgraceful way to lose. There's a lack of discipline at Arsenal. And they showed a complete lack of discipline, a lack of respect towards the best manager the world has ever seen probably."– Paul Scholes (Former Manchester United player, 1993-2013).
"I didn't like any of their players… because it was United." – Lee Dixon (Former Arsenal player, 1988-2002).
==Chapter 34==
"Everybody wrote us off because nobody went to Juventus and won." – Denis Irwin on the build-up to the 2nd leg of the 1999 Champions League semi-final.
==Chapter 37==
"We always said 'We have to beat an Italian side' in those days to win the Champions League." – Denis Irwin (Former Manchester United player, 1990-2002).
"For Man United education wise, Juve were the model for us, the teams of [Marcello] Lippi. They were the best, they gave us some beatings and our great moment in beating them in 1999 was the progress was wanted to make. Juventus was the model for that." – Sir Alex Ferguson (Former Manchester United manager, 1986-2013).
==Chapter 45==
"Miracles are possible!" – Clive Tyldesley (Sports broadcaster).
"The Germans have a word for the process of taking a penalty: Nervenstärke. It means 'strength of nerve', 'nerves of steel'." – Dan Walker (BBC Television presenter).
==Chapter 48==
"I think it's going to go to the wire. The team that shows the most consistency now will win it. Squeaky bum time." – Sir Alex Ferguson (Former Manchester United manager, 1986-2013).
==Chapter 51==
"This is the splendour of the FA Cup." – Martin Tyler (Sports broadcaster).
==Chapter 53==
"You only get one shot. Do not miss your chance to blow. This opportunity comes once in a lifetime." – Eminem (Rapper).
==Chapter 55==
"It is in the fabric of this football club! It is in the soul of this football club! They never, never give up!" – Gary Weaver (Sports broadcaster).
==Chapter 56==
"If any modern team manages to do what that class of '99 did, they deserve to be lauded to the heavens." – Jim Rosenthal (Sports broadcaster).
==Epilogue==
"You worry you'll lose all this history, all these memories. But they live on. And they'll never be forgotten." – Sir Alex Ferguson (Former Manchester United manager, 1986-2013).
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