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Weekends do not pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.

S.A. Sachs

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers

Merlin Olsen

Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.

Mary McGrory

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

Sue Lawley

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

The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Phyllis Diller

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

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen, soccer is a gentlemen's game played by beasts and US football is a beastly game played by beasts.

Henry Blaha

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

Dave Barry

Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

Bo Jackson

We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.

John F. Kennedy

When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fantasy-football player. Baseball is a game that is played every day, and baseball as a game in fantasy has so many more permutations than does fantasy football.

Don Levy

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

Bill Veeck

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.

Unknown

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

Tom Tolbert

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Shula

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 Junior

In the football match, everything is complicated by the presence of the other team.

Jean Paul Sartre

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

One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.

Unknown

No star playing, just football.

Knute Rockne

If football players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.

Irwin Shaw

Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.

Jay Mohr

When you're fifteen and somebody tells you they love you, you're gonna believe them. And when you're fifteen don't forget to look before you fall. In your life you'll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team. I didn't know it at fifteen.

Taylor Swift

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