Famous american-football quotations

   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.
 ~ by Arnold Mandell

   He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.
 ~ by Steve Owen, about Bronko Nagurski

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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.
 ~ by Luke Salisbury

   American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
 ~ by Sue Lawley, 1985

   Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
 ~ by Frank Gifford

   I have seen women walk right past a TV set with a football game on and - this always amazes me - not stop to watch, even if the TV is showing replays of what we call a good hit, which is a tackle that causes at least one major internal organ to actually fly out of a player's body.
 ~ by Dave Barry

   Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
 ~ by Jim Bouton

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

   What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?
 ~ by Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times

   Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.
 ~ by Jim Murray

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

   There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.
 ~ by Alfred Hitchcock

   Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellowman which, if done elsewhere, would result in fourteen days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.
 ~ by P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 1930

   Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
 ~ by Doug Plank

   I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
 ~ by Jack Tatum

   When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.
 ~ by George Raveling

   Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
 ~ by Tony Kornheiser

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

   I do not like football, which I think of as a game in which two tractors approach each other from opposite directions and collide. Besides, I have contempt for a game in which players have to wear so much equipment. Men play basketball in their underwear, which seems just right to me.
 ~ by Anna Quindlen, Living Out Loud, 1988

   Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
 ~ by Mary McGrory

   The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
 ~ by Erma Bombeck

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

   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.
 ~ by George Plimpton

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

   If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
 ~ by Bob Golic



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