One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured. – New York Tribune
…trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer. – A veteran NFL referee describing his duties, quoted in Richard Saul Wurman, Amer
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theatres, etc., that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness and jazz bands. – George Santayana, letter to Van Wyck Brooks, 1927
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers. – Merle Kessler
Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately. – Reggie Williams, when asked his greatest strengths as a football player
