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QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY
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1
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Football is more
mental than physical, no matter how it looks from the stands.
--Ray Nitschke
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2
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Academy, n. [from Academe] -- A modern school
where football is
taught.
--Ambrose Bierce
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3
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Anybody who watches three games of football
in
a row should be declared brain dead.
--Erma Bombeck
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4
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Football has been
rousing emotions for hundreds of years in a variety of forms, all having
in common the idea of moving a ball from one place to another with varying
degrees of violence as the means of propulsion.
--Heywood Hale Broun
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5
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Bear Bryant's Three Rules for coaching: 1) Surround
yourself with people who can't live without football.
2) Recognize winners. They come In all forms. 3) Have a plan for everything.
--Bear Bryant
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6
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Football is not a
contact sport. Football is
a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
--Duffy Daugherty
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7
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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.
--Lewis Grizzard
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8
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Did you know that the ball is actually in play
for only 12 minutes In a 60-minute football
game?
Why should a football
player
be leg weary after only 12 minutes of action? It makes me laugh!
--Pudge Heffelfinger
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9
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Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small
boy than to fumble this football.
--John Heisman
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10
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Football is a sport
that bears the same relationship to education that bullfighting does to
agriculture.
--Elbert Hubbard
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11
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Pro football gave
me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already
been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.
--Jack Kemp
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12
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Football is nothing
more than a series of actions, mistakes, and miscalculations. Punt and
make your opposition make the mistakes.
--Bob Neyland
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13
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Sharks are as tough as those football
fans
who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more
intelligent.
--Dave Barry
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14
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Sure, luck means a lot in football.
Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
--Don Shula
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15
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Our country will be in trouble as long as we pay
the best teachers less than the worst football
coaches.
-- Unknown
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16
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There's no tougher way to make easy money than
pro football.
--Norm Van Brocklin
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17
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The Green Bay Packers never lost a football
game.
They just ran out of time.
--Vince Lombardi
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18
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Football features
two of the worst parts of American life -- violence punctuated by committee
meetings.
--George F. Will
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19
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If football taught
me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
--Fran Tarkenton
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20
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Pro football is
like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
--Frank Gifford
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21
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American football
is
an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and television
commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play.
--London Times
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22
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The players on the Maryland football
team
all made straight As. Their Bs were a little crooked.
--Johnny Walker
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23
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A school without football
is
in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
--Frank Leahy
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24
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Football doesn't
build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
--Darrell Royal
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25
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One thing that God has taught me through football
is
to try and phase out the circumstances around me and not let them control
me.
--Frank Reich
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26
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In life, as in football,
you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
--Arnold Glasgow
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27
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the
side which has the best football coach.
--Heywood Broun
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28
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One good thing can be said for inflation: without
it there would be no football.
--Marty Ragaway
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29
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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 important.
--Eugene McCarthy
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30
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When Nature designed the male knee, she obviously
had neither football nor
walking shorts in mind.
--Bill Vaughan
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31
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Football isn't a
matter of life and death - it's much more important than that.
--Bill Shankly
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