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The World Cup is a truly International event.
John Motson
World
Truly
Cup
International
Event
World Cup
Not the first half you might have expected, even though the score might suggest that it was.
John Motson
You
First
Half
Though
Score
Expected
Might
Even
Suggest
It looks like a one man show here, although there are two men involved.
John Motson
Man
Men
One-Man
Like
Involved
Looks
Although
Show
Here
Two
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.
John Motson
Will
Before
Financially
City
Follow
London
More
Scene
Economic
Area
Football
Support
Powerful
New
Chelsea
Ham
West
Spurs
Ambitious
Reflects
Than
Clubs
Might
Multiculturalism
Whole
Now
Ever
Even now, I still get a bit apprehensive before a game because I am worried about whether I have done enough preparation or if something is going to catch me out. But the fear factor has gone - as it should have done by now, really, after nearly 50 years.
John Motson
Me
Game
Fear
Before
Gone
Preparation
Enough
Apprehensive
Worried
Bit
Out
About
Something
Factor
Catch
Because
Am
Still
Years
Get
Done
Going
After
Whether
Really
Should
Even
Even Now
Now
Nearly
I still use felt tip pens for my notes, on a white board that I carry around with me. I am not into the computer technology - you can say that quite safely.
John Motson
Me
You
Technology
White
Say
Carry
Pens
Computer
Safely
Around
Felt
Am
Still
Quite
Tip
Board
Notes
Use
I'm not a celebrity whose face is recognised everywhere I go, like Gary Lineker, but my voice does make people sit up and pay attention from time to time.
John Motson
Time
People
Face
Sit
Pay
Pay Attention
Everywhere
Recognised
Voice
Attention
Like
Make
Does
Go
Up
Celebrity
From Time To Time
Whose
Gary
I just thought my 50th year in the BBC is 2018, and it has to end sometime, and I thought that would be a good note to go out.
John Motson
Good
Thought
Year
Out
Would
Would-Be
Sometime
Go
End
Just
Note
I might feel a little bit empty, and it might get to me for a short time, but I'm hoping to keep my association with football and with broadcasting - I'm not retiring from everything; I'm retiring from the BBC. I'm certainly not going pipe and slippers.
John Motson
Time
Me
Everything
Broadcasting
Bit
Slippers
Hoping
Football
Feel
Retiring
Empty
Pipe
Get
Going
Short
Short Time
Little
Little Bit
Might
Certainly
Keep
Association
One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.
John Oldham
Smoking
Year
Past
Tried
Stick
Am
Years
Quit
Going
Two
Resolutions
We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.
John Oldham
Good
Club
Beating
Had
Ball
Were
Anybody
Capable
Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.
John Paul Getty Jr.
Money
Like
Most
Around
Spread
Effective
Manure
Widely
This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.
John Scarlett
Single
Military
Reliable
Know
Line
Source
Iraqi
Officer
Report
Reporting
Senior
Established
Information
Quoted
Position
As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.
John Scarlett
Own
Structure
More
Indispensable
Individual
Absolutely
No-One
Develops
Becomes
Bureaucracy
Dependent
Established
Personalities
Should
Less
Career
I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.
John Sutter
Judge
Father
Everything
Priest
The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.
John Sutter
Me
Punish
Wounding
Indians
All-Around
Threatening
Stealing
Obliged
Attack
Horses
Troublesome
Make
Around
Cattle
Began
Campaigns
Against
Them
Us
Love is the bond of perfection.
John Winthrop
Love
Love Is
Perfection
Bond
The eyes of all people are upon us.
John Winthrop
Eyes
People
All People
Us
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
Me
Brought
Since
Looked
Well
Arrest
Coming
Were
Norwegian
Regarded
Biggest
Newspaper
Us
I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.
Jon Johansen
Me
Confusion
Bit
Member
About
Seems
Fact
Part
Written
Encryption
German
In Fact
Happened
Code
Now
I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.
Jon Johansen
Internet
Relay
Only
Chat
Had
Identity
Any
Them
Used
So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.
Jon Johansen
Introduce
Had
New
Been
Pirating
Anything
Available
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
Jon Johansen
Service
No Intention
Bother
Intention
Then
Using
Basically
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
Jon Johansen
Work
Job
Software
Took
Jobs
Would
Stuff
Most
Because
End
Get
Hands
Norway
Wanted
Products
Users
Niche
Server
Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.
Jon Johansen
Legal
Law
Something
Prevent
Consumers
Doing
Use
Companies
I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.
Jon Johansen
Life
Ten
Bought
Whole
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