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American football makes rugby look
like a Tupperware party. --Sue
Lawley
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Baseball players are smarter than
football players. How often do you
see a baseball team penalized for
too many men on the field? --Jim
Bouton
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Football is easy if you're crazy as
hell. --Bo Jackson
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Football is, after all, a wonderful
way to get rid of your aggressions
without going to jail for it.
--Heywood Hale Braun
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's
a collision sport. Dancing is a
contact sport. --Duffy Daugherty
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I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500
yards, whichever comes first.
--George Rogers
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I wouldn't ever set out to hurt
anyone deliberately unless it was,
you know, important -like a league
game or something. --Dick Butkus
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I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow,
in Buffalo, for a chance to play in
the NFL. --Steve Henderson
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If a man watches three football
games in a row, he should be
declared legally dead. --Erma
Bombeck
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If my mother put on a helmet and
shoulder pads and a uniform that
wasn't the same as the one I was
wearing, I'd run over her if she was
in my way. And I love my mother.
--Bo Jackson
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I've been big ever since I was
little. --William "The Refrigerator"
Perry
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I've found that prayers work best
when you have big players. --Knute
Rockne
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Most football teams are
temperamental. That's 90% temper and
10% mental. --Doug Plank
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Nobody in football should be called
a genius. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein. --Joe Theismann
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Pro football is like nuclear
warfare. There are no winners, only
survivors. --Frank Gifford
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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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Sure, luck means a lot in football.
Not having a good quarterback is bad
luck. --Don Shula
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We can't run. We can't pass. We
can't stop the run. We can't stop
the pass. We can't kick. Other than
that, we're just not a very good
football team right now. --Bruce
Coslet
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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. --George Raveling
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You have to play this game like
somebody just hit your mother with a
two-by-four. --Dan Birdwell