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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

~Fran Lebowitz

Topics: Actual Aspiring Being Excuse Football Good Interest Male Only Play Play Football Simply Special Special Interest Woman Women

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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

~Fran Tarkenton

Topics: About Anything Business Football Game Me Play Taught Time Win You

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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

~Fran Tarkenton

Topics: About Business Every Every Time Football Get Knocked Show Show Business Special Start Thinking Time Wonderful

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Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.

~Francesco Totti

Topics: Always Anything Anything Else Been Else Everything Football Game Love Me More More Than Anything Never Passion Than

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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

~Francesco Totti

Topics: About After Am Another Football Know Life Thinking Will World I Am

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Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Barger. Football? The biggest games in Baltimore had been when Johns Hopkins took on Susquehanna or Franklin & Marshall at homecoming.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Arrived Athlete Baltimore Been Before Best Biggest Bowler Football Franklin Games Had Homecoming Hopkins Marshall Named Took Town Woman

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Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

~Frank Deford

Topics: Back Built Calendar Call Cities College Colleges Even Football Football Game Game Go Great Homecoming Intertwined Our People Represent Schools Stadiums Teams Yes

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It's still the tradition for various football powerhouses to pay guarantees to schools with cream-puff teams to come on over to our place and submit to massacre.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Come Football Guarantees Massacre Our Over Pay Place Schools Still Submit Teams Tradition Various

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As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.

~Frank Deford

Topics: Bankruptcy Been Could Demand Existence Fee Football Game Give Had Happens Made Out Play Put School Still Team Threatened Up Verge Well

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Does each of us need to suffer agony to understand how brutal our gridiron entertainment is? Surely, seeing is believing enough. So, what is football doing to us as a people? How do we explain an America that alone in the world so loves this savage sport?

~Frank Deford

Topics: Agony Alone America Believing Brutal Does Doing Each Enough Entertainment Explain Football How Loves Need Our People Savage Seeing Sport Suffer Surely Understand Us World

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