Quotes About Football

That day, two dangerous men sat, had a beer, and discussed the latest football scores.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

It was the gravity of the place. In football the facility was designed to be difficult to leave. Everything was there for you. A barber came in regularly. So did a dry cleaner and a car washer. Three meals a day were served. And best of all, there was the built-in coterie of brothers and fathers and uncles and a mutual sense of binding purpose.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

Your 40 trillion cells contain at least a quadrillion mitochondria, with a combined convoluted surface area of about 14,000 square metres; about four football fields.

that—too busy playing football. I figured someone was…." He trailed off. Isaacson glanced up. "Was what?" "Never mind. Need anything else, sir? I

The standing of the local high school football team was more likely to be the subject of conversation and concern than the war in Europe.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

Now here come your friends racing onto the scene! They're ready for football in their jerseys and jeans! So you quickly choose sides and mark off the goals, using jackets and earmuffs and telephone poles. Then with one mighty kick the game starts to click. And oh, what a game! So many trick plays! You sneak to the mailbox, then streak the wrong way! But then a long pass over driveway and grass is caught near the earmuffs-- a touchdown at last! And everyone sighs as you end in a tie.

Television is not the Truth. Television is god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom killing business.

He'd lost a bet with his head cook Rico about last week's Broncos game, and he'd had to shave it off. Bastard.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

The politics at Max's were very similar to high school, except the popular people were not the cheerleaders or football heroes and the prom queen would most certainly e a he, dressed as a she, knowing more about being a she than most she's.

That crap about being better off under slavery is too much even for you, isn't it, Foy?' 'At least McJones cares.' 'Come on, he cares about black people like a seven-footer cares about football. He has to care because what else would he be good at.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Any man who watches three games of football in a row should be declared legally dead." – Erma Bombeck

As a lawyer, I break as few rules as possible, and just as in football, I play the game without fear. My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don't be afraid to lose.

broiling Sunday afternoons in what I still call Joe Robbie Stadium.

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

Actually, some of the tackles looked more like assassination attempts to me.

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.