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"Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition."
"There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book."
"If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team."
"The only time I got the absolute most insanely nervous in my life was at the Olympic trials, because archery is a horrible spectator sport. Nobody goes and watches an archery tournament. Because the targets are three-quarters of a football field away. Who can tell who's winning? You can't even see your own target from where you are."
"When everything else breaks down, I don't hesitate to roam out of the pocket and do the boogaloo."
"It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play."
"I didn't even grow up with football. I learned the rules of football on this show [The League]."
"I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game."
"I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship."
"I'll tell you, there were only a few games in my career where I was totally oblivious to everything around me, where I was in the zone."
"People get hurt all the time in the game of football, it's part of what we do."
"I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it."
"In football, hate can be a beautiful thing; sustaining and nourishing, quite unlike other manifestations of an otherwise destructive emotion."
"There's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that."
"Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying."
"Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle."
"In football the object is to march into enemy territory and cross his goal. In baseball the object is to go home."
"The stronger women get, the more men love football."
"Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment."
"My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing."
