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In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

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 David Eisenhower

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H Lapham

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

Chuck Mills

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays

Yogi Berra

Maybe you offer then a luxury cruise for two weeks with the wife, or a trip on a private jet on BBC Panorama, a program about bung taking in football

Peter Harrison

Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

George Archer

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

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

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death...it is much, much more important than that.

Bill Shankley

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Vince Lombardi

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Jimmy Greaves

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Vince Lombardi

Most football teams are temperamental. That's 90% temper and 10% mental.

Doug Plank

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Frank Gifford

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Heywood Hale Broun

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George F. Will

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

Merle Kessler

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Jimmy Breslin

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

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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