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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. ~Vince Lombardi
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught. ~Ambrose Bierce
After all, is football a game or a religion? ~Howard Cosell
All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on. ~Mike Singletary
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American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party. ~Sue Lawley
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. ~Jose Mourinho
And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together. ~Joan Collins
Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies, they won that respect that the opponent has for them. ~Jose Mourinho
At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. ~George Plimpton
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Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air. ~Jim Murray
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~John Leonard
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become. ~Mary McGrory
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ~Jim Bouton
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Becoming a dad was the proudest moment of my life. Playing football does not even compare. ~Wayne Rooney
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous. ~Chris Laidlaw, 1973
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ~Fran Lebowitz
But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was. ~Brett Favre
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team. ~Norah Jones
Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football. ~Vidal Sassoon
Fifa cannot sit by and see greed rule the football world. Nor shall we. ~Sepp Blatter
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. ~Bill Shankly
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George F. Will
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Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper. ~Bjork
Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. ~Jose Mourinho
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. ~Knute Rockne
Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. ~Jose Mourinho
Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. ~Bill Shankly
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ~Tom Landry
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. ~Vince Lombardi
Football is like life and I know life. ~Rush Limbaugh
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes. ~Wayne Rooney
Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport. ~Duffy Daugherty
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Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time. ~Arnold Mandell
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it. ~Heywood Hale Brown
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. ~Merle Kessler
Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something. ~Kenny Chesney
Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country. ~Wayne Rooney
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For some reason the football coach of a major college program is seen as one of the leaders of the campus. And some way we have to let our young people know that that leader can look like anyone. ~Tony Dungy
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years. ~Ronald Reagan
He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference. ~Steve Owen, about Bronko Nagurski
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field. ~Ricky Williams
I am very patriotic and grew up in a house with football fans. ~Rachel Stevens
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I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me. ~Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, 1988
I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football. ~David Walliams
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. ~Sting
I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them. ~Jose Mourinho
I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a "good hit," which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body. ~Dave Barry
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I learned in high school that I was going to have to outwork people. I remember running around the track, training for football, and a faster guy ran past me. I just figured, I can outlast him. If I work harder than him, I'll beat him. And to this day I overprepare. ~Roger Goodell
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault. ~Jack Tatum
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on. ~Lou Holtz
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career. ~Novak Djokovic
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice. ~Wayne Rooney
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I love football, football is my life. ~Wayne Rooney
I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else. ~Wayne Rooney
I obviously take a lot of pride in what I do on the football field, because that has the ability to influence a lot of people. That puts smiles on people's faces. That gives people a pep in their step on Monday morning when they go back to work. ~Drew Brees
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability. ~LeBron James
I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. ~Emmanuelle Beart
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I really do love football. ~Ricky Williams
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender. ~Usain Bolt
I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much. ~Ricky Williams
I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not. ~Ricky Williams
I think the best place to work in football is England. ~Jose Mourinho
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I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football. ~Trey Parker
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players. ~Gabrielle Union
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. ~Ed O'Neill
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~Erma Bombeck
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ~Erma Bombeck
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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback. ~Lou Holtz
If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. ~Eric Cantona
If you identify yourself as a great football player, anytime anyone challenges that, you're going to have some kind of problem. ~Ricky Williams
If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas. ~Ricky Williams
If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same. ~Bob Golic
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I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. ~Danny Boyle
I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things. ~Ricky Williams
I'm just a normal young lad who plays football. ~Wayne Rooney
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. ~Jose Mourinho
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
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In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction. ~Angela Merkel
In the States, there's ESPN3, and each country has different options, and other than premiere league football, there tends to be very little global content. And movie and TV rights are pretty broad content. ~Reed Hastings
Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning? ~Mike Alexander, MADfit.com
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~George Santayana
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. ~George Santayana
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It's so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs... we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics. ~Snoop Dogg
I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now. ~Ricky Williams
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on the football field and beat your head against other human beings on a daily basis. ~Tim Green
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ~Thomas Sowell
Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody. ~Ricky Williams
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Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo. ~Tony Kornheiser
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental. ~Doug Plank
Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood. ~Robert Caro
Music was important. Football was the easy part. ~Zinedine Zidane
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My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961. ~Lou Holtz
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. ~Marat Safin
Nine in the box... that's a football term. ~Ricky Williams
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always. ~Aiden Wilson Tozer
One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. ~Author Unknown
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Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League. ~Tony Dungy
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. ~Vince Lombardi
Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real. ~Ricky Williams
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. ~John F. Kennedy
Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy. ~Jack Kemp
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ~Frank Gifford
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Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts. Football is a beastly game played by beasts. ~Henry Blaha, 1972
Schools across India do not have teachers, libraries, playing grounds and even toilets. I do not want to see empty classrooms, empty libraries. I do not want to see cattle grazing on fields meant to be cricket or football grounds. ~Sachin Tendulkar
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. ~John Steinbeck
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent. ~Dave Barry
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So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked. ~Jose Mourinho
So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. ~Jose Mourinho
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. ~Colin Powell
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ~Bill Shankly
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling. ~Vince Lombardi
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Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they're better than us. ~Alex Ferguson
Speed is not your fastest, but your slowest man. No back can run faster than his interference. ~Jock Sutherland
Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. ~Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player
Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. ~Andrew Motion
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
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That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that. ~Mike Krzyzewski
The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families. ~Roger Goodell
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity. ~Lewis Grizzard
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society. ~Jose Mourinho
The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player. ~Ricky Williams
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The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller
The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public. ~Phyllis Diller
The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. ~Erma Bombeck
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles. ~Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913
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The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out. ~Brett Favre
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. ~Novak Djokovic
The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ~Bob Schieffer
There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally. ~Alfred Hitchcock
There are two kinds of people in the world, Notre Dame lovers and Notre Dame haters. And, quite frankly, they're both a pain in the ass. ~Dan Devine, former Notre Dame football coach
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer. ~Anonymous referee, explaining his job
Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it. ~Luke Salisbury
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person. ~Ricky Williams
We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League. ~Roger Goodell
What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? ~Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. ~Terry Bradshaw
When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football. ~Mike Krzyzewski
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When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football. ~Kenny Chesney
When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team. ~George Raveling
When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down. ~Mike Krzyzewski
When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure. ~Bobby Flay
When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids. ~Chuck Mills
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When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football. ~Jose Mourinho
Without football, my life is worth nothing. ~Cristiano Ronaldo
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it. ~Jeanne Moreau
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. ~Irwin Shaw
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. ~Jello Biafra
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You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ~Frank Zappa
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games. ~Jack Kemp
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four. ~Dan Birdwell
You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. ~Tony Dungy