At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. – George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback, 1965
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
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didnt know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. Hes not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. – Magic Johnson
Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. Its the best thing about being alive. – Michael Sheen
