Famous Football Quotes - Famous Quotes about Football
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
- Frank Leahy
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
- Erma Bombeck
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
- Archibald MacLeish
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Everybody said how stoic I was on the sidelines, that I didn't show any emotion. You have to understand, I was never on the play the fans were seeing. I was on the next play, or two or three plays after that.
- Tom Landry
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
- George Will
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
- George Will
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Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are--retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.
- Edward Abbey
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I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
- Walter Payton
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I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
- Knute Rockne
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If there's a pileup, they'll have to give some of the players artificial insemination. (announcing for the AFL all-star game on a flooded field)
- Curt Gowdy
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
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The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
- Randy Cross
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The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
- Art Modell
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