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Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun1888–1939
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
- Men
We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi1913–1970
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismannborn 1949
- Genius
Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Willborn 1941International Herald Tribune (7 May 1990)
Most football teams are temperamental. That’s 90% temper and 10% mental.
DPDoug Plankborn 1953
In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard!
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919“The American Boy”, published in St. Nicholas 27, no. 7 (May 1900), p. 574
- Life & Death
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
John Steinbeck1902–1968Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962), Pt. 4