"There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness."
"I don't know how other bands play the same songs every night."
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Source: Quoted in Colin JarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).
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