# Quote — Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

> I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

- Author: [Nick Hornby](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby.md)
- Book: [Fever Pitch](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Hornby#Fever_Pitch_(1992)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch/i-fell-in-love

## More from this book

> By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch/by-the-early.md)

> As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-hornby/fever-pitch/as-i-get.md)