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Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Pressbox Maxim

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

George Will

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character!

Marv Levy

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

Oscar Wilde

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Knute Rockne

Why is it good for football to take the excitement away from fans by overcharging them for tickets to see their team?

Sepp Blatter

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

He's a great athlete. He can play multiple positions, he can throw and run. As the quarterback, he has the most freedom. He can do what he pleases with the football, as long as he does it within the offense.

Carlos Harvest

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene McCarthy

One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football.

Marty Ragaway

The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theisman

In a football game and in the corporate workplace there is a huge difference between teams that achieve great success and teams that become dismal failures. The answer is effective communication- teams that can openly share ideas, focus on the task, and communicate proactively should not be surprised by their achievements.

Reed Markham

Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

John Fowles

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~

John Leonard

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul

Sri Chinmoy

The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.

Unknown

The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time

Vince Lombardi

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Jean Paul Sartre

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

Bill Shankley

Football is the opera of the people.

Stafford Heginbotham

I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.

Eric Morecambe

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Ondino Viera

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Oscar Wilde

Football has taken the place of religion in Scotland.

Robin Jenkins

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