New Brighton Beach Soccer Tournament - Annual 5-a-side beach soccer competitions for men's, ladies' and junior teams, taking place over a summer weekend. Site includes information about entry, and competition rules.
New Brighton Saints - Under-8s to under-16s teams. Includes fixtures and league tables.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Football My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Football
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Football Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Football
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Football "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Football
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Football In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Football
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Football Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Football
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Football Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Football
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Football blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Football
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Football "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Football
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Football We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Football
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Football Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Football
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Football "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Football
