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 | "Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male
transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play
football." | |
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Fran Lebowitz
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| "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." | |
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Eugene J. McCarthy
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| "Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is
the key to all the locks." | |
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Joe Paterno
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| "Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society:
violence punctuated by committee meetings." | |
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George Will
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| "Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble
this football." | |
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John Heisman
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| "I don"t like to lose, and that isn"t so much because it is just a
football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your
objective. I don"t want a football player who doesn"t take defeat to
heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there"s another
Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in
sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is
that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard
work and training and sacrifice." | |
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Knute Kenneth Rockne
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| "I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel "em one by
one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep." | |
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Big Daddy Lipscomb
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| "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad
it is, you can make it." | |
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Gale Sayers
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| "I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with
other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing." | |
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Deacon Jones
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| "If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be
declared legally brain dead." | |
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Erma Bombeck
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| "If you train hard, you"ll not only be hard, you"ll be hard to
beat." | |
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Herschel Walker
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| "In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the
line hard." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the
game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the
ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight
(the power to foresee and provide for the future)" | |
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Carlos Egan Asay
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| "Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered
their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great
ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one
eye, he had as much vision as anyone I"ve ever seen. He"d know
instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He
was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn"t
bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told
Chicago he"d win them a Super Bowl." | |
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LaVell Edwards
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| "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein." | |
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Joe Theismann
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| "Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go
about achieving it and staying with that plan." | |
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Tom Landry
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| "That Jim Brown. He says he isn"t Superman. What he really means is
that Superman isn"t Jimmy Brown!" | |
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Unknown
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| "The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is
expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be
thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will
be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and
toward the play. Watch out for cross bucks and reverse end runs. Be on
your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack." | |
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Jack Trice
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| "The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." | |
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John Madden
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| "The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great
feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the
ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to
lose." | |
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George H. Allen
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| "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." | |
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Luke Salisbury
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| "When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anybody
deliberately ... unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or
something." | |
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Dick Butkus
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| "When it"s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I"ll
take the whiskey drinkers every time." | |
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Max McGee
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| "When your are playing for the national championship, it"s not a
matter of life or death. It"s more important than that." | |
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Duffy Daugherty
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