Got Football??

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

~Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

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

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

~Joe Namath

"We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?......I am a football addict, and I am not alone in this country. We are legion, and we must have football ... Yes. It is righteous......"

~Hunter S. Thompson (from his ESPN Page 2 journalism days)

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

~ Erma Bombeck

I don't know any other way to lead but by example.

~Don Shula

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

~Dan Birdwell

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was important -- like a league game.

~Dick Butkis