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AMERICAN FOOTBALL QUOTES
Quotes cited by Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, 1988.
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Dave Currey, University of Cincinnati football coach
QUOTATION: We don’t have any refrigerators. We have a few potbelly stoves, but they’re on the coaching staff.
ATTRIBUTION: Referring to Chicago Bears player William “Refrigerator” Perry, Sports Illustrated 2 Dec 85
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George Thoma, grounds keeper
QUOTATION: Grass grows by inches but it’s killed by feet.
ATTRIBUTION: On care of Kansas City football field, NBC TV 21 Jan 87
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London Times
QUOTATION: American football is an occasion at which dancing girls, bands, tactical huddles and television commercial breaks are interrupted by short bursts of play.
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Frank Leahy, former University of Notre Dame football coach
QUOTATION: Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Doug Weaver, former Kansas State University football coach
QUOTATION: I’m glad it happened in front of the library. I’ve always emphasized scholarship. ATTRIBUTION: On being hanged in effigy, Sports Illustrated 9 Jun 86
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Terry Brennan, University of Notre Dame football coach
QUOTATION: If you’re old and you lose, they say you’re outmoded. If you’re young and you lose, they say you’re green. So don’t lose.
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Alex Agase, University of Michigan, assistant football coach
QUOTATION: If you really want to advise me, do it on Saturday afternoon between 1 and 4 o’clock. And you’ve got 25 seconds to do it, between plays. Not on Monday. I know the right thing to do on Monday.
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Barry Switzer, University of Oklahoma football coach
QUOTATION: It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
ATTRIBUTION: On player who dropped out of school, Sports Illustrated 12 Nov 73
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