A Beautiful Adventure

BBC SPORT Football Europe Liverpool complete Torres signing:

"A new beautiful adventure begins for me and I hope that with work and effort I can be among the best players."

A beautiful place to play

Former Uruguay international Gus Poyet is trying to get more South Americans to play in England:

"I think it is great for everyone in South America to see players coming over here. I have always tried to encourage them," Poyet told BBC Sport.

"They should look to England more. It is a beautiful place to play football with full stadiums everywhere and the football being so great.

(BBC)

It is beautiful

Lippi on possibly returning as Italy manager after their World Cup win:

"It is beautiful to win important titles and when you reach the top, you realise how hard it was to get there and how fantastic it would be to discover new emotions and incentives."

(BBC 2006.07.11)

Only Winning is Beautiful

After all of the talk of "the beautiful game" in this World Cup, those are the words of France coach Raymond Domenech in the BBC after his side lost the big prize to Italy on penalties:

"I don't have the heart to remember the good things right now. Only the disappointment at the moment...I am deeply disappointed. We deserved the title based over the whole match...Only victory is beautiful and we missed out just by a little thing. We can say it wasn't too bad but it is the Italians who are the world champions...They played for the penalties because that was the only option for them."