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AMERICAN FOOTBALL QUOTES.
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
(Bill Cosby (20th century), U.S. comedian. Fatherhood, ch. 6 (1986).)
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Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.
(Garry Wills (b. 1934), U.S. national columnist, author. Baltimore Sun, p. 17 (November 22, 1994).)
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...I'm not money hungry.... People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
(Martina Navratilova (b. 1956), U.S. tennis player; born in Czechoslovakia. Martina, ch. 44 (1985). She would become the leading money-winning woman tennis player in history.)
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In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty's torch. In football you run over somebody's face. (Donald Hall (b. 1928), U.S. poet, essayist.)
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Time now to pack this humpty-dumpty
back the frightened way she came
and run along, and run along now,
my stomach laced up like a football for the game.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Operation.")
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Smoking ... is downright dangerous. Most people who smoke will eventually contract a fatal disease and die. But they don't brag about it, do they? Most people who ski, play professional football or drive race cars, will not die—at least not in the act—and yet they are the ones with the glamorous images, the expensive equipment and the mythic proportions. Why this should be I cannot say, unless it is simply that the average American does not know a daredevil when he sees one.
(Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950), U.S. humorist. Social Studies, ch. 18 (1981). Lebowitz, a dedicated cigarette smoker, often wrote satirically about smoking, laws restricting smoking, and "smokers' rights.")
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