Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.
Hunter S. Thompson
Related For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season! MARCUS SAMUELSSON There are two types of football - there's physical football and football talent. XAVI I hope we can get to a point where women players are being paid properly all around the world so the... ABBY WAMBACH Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites ... ROGER MILLA The trouble for today's footballers is they have too many distractions. We used to get our old p... FRANZ BECKENBAUER With Al Golden, we now have the final piece in place for the rebuilding of the Temple football progr... BILL BRADSHAW With Al Golden, we now have the final piece in place for the rebuilding of the Temple football progr... BILL BRADSHAW They (the fans) are never going to forget to go to football games. This is a dominant football schoo... JAMAR BUTLER The only thing we have outside our city is our home football team. DARRELL TARLETON The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about footbal... TERRY PRATCHETT FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ... LERCHE NJANG That's true of all the teams we have. We are investing more in football, and we want to have a bette... BUBBA CUNNINGHAM That's true of all the teams we have, ... We are investing more in football, and we want to have a b... BALL STATE I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so... TROY POLAMALU I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid fo... RUTH REICHL I'm a Chelsea fan. My whole background is in football, CLIVE WOODWARD We got the numbers. How many good football players we have, I'm not sure yet. GREG SCOTT There are no greater football critics than the players themselves. To be recognized by your fellow p... GORDON TAYLOR I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just wa... REGGIE BUSH I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never... ART DONOVAN NFL Head Coach is an entirely new football experience that every level of football gamer can play. I... DALE JACKSON 'NFL Head Coach' is an entirely new football experience that every level of football gamer can play.... DALE JACKSON We have taken a look at Woodland and we have looked at them every way that there is to look at them.... BRUCE MATTHEWS I see football in Montgomery changing, not for the better. The excitement and enthusiasm is not the ... RICHARD MONCRIEF And, they've had a terrific football team, produced great football over the years, and great rivalri... PAUL TAGLIABUE Attacking football is the simplest way to victory and success. In Argentina, we are aware of this, w... MARCELO BIELSA What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all sha... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ You never know what can happen in football. It's football. CALVIN JOHNSON For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply pers... DAN MAFFEI That is very important to know that he is really a friend, [and it's] not just a football thing. Tha... ANDRE CALDWELL I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Gia... CHRIS BAUER We have a football fund that is funded by the National Football League and the National Football Lea... CEDRIC JONES Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop o... ERIC CANTONA You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of Ame... GEORGE F. WILL About the only thing we stop him from doing is playing football. Other than that, he's doing great. CINDY BROWN They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL,... JOHN MADDEN I've never seen this happen. It is the kind of thing we talk about constantly in practice, but I've ... CHARLY MCLOUGHLIN Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south. OMARI HARDWICK The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. TOM BRADY NFL Head Coach, the third pillar in our NFL portfolio, was developed to satiate all those Monday mor... DALE JACKSON Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football. ROGER MILLA Outside football, I just love life, you know. We're lucky to play football, to have all this bod... PAUL POGBA Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized f... JIM BOULTON Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized ... JIM BOUTON Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized f... JIM BOUTON This is a great time to meet the fans. Indoor football is about the fans. They're a big part of the ... DIXIE WOOTEN It's a football city, ... But between Crosby and the free agents, people feel the Penguins have a be... HENRY KING We beat a very good football team and we still haven't played our best football. BYRON LEFTWICH A lot of people think retired football players only know one thing, and that's football. Well, he's ... GRANT REDHEAD I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Football is sometimes like this. We played really well but wasted far too many chances tonight...we ... SAMUEL ETO'O I am a fan of Cam Newton. I love watching him play the game. He is an unbelievable talent: throwing ... JORDAN RODGERS I was a football fan before I became a rugby fan. BRIAN O'DRISCOLL Football is about having a winner and a loser. Liverpool is a great team, but the only thing that ma... PAULO AUTUORI I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f... FERNANDO TORRES We have to play better fundamentally. We have to play assignment football and play with proper lever... BUDDY GREEN Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become MARY MCGRORY Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan. ABHISHEK BACHCHAN Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious t... BILL SHANKLY As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Footb... KATHERINE WEBB I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. VERNE TROYER I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train m... HAYDEN FRY Racism is the most serious problem facing football today. This declaration is a solid foundation to ... ELLIOT PAUL The thing that was appealing at Buckeye Central was to come in and start a football program where th... ARCH RODGERS In football, time and space are the same thing. GRAHAM TAYLOR I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about footba... VICTORIA BECKHAM As happy as the other locker room is, that's how disappointed we are. I think we were careless with ... MIKE HOLMGREN There are too many games being played. The convention centre has become a political football. INNES COUN There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game.... TROY POLAMALU In my life the only thing I know is football. We earned less, but we knew where we started from and ... SINISA MIHAJLOVIC American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over t... NOEL GALLAGHER We have a smart football team, and they understand, JOE GIBBS It's a good thing to do. You don't have to have played football. Some of our better officials have n... CHAD LASWELL It wasn't too many gimmicks, just hard football. They have a massive line, but we used our speed and... DARRYL TAPP All of us in Seattle that are football fans and sports fans, I think we like getting some more focus... PAUL ALLEN As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot. When we were playing in th... BARRY SANDERS Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than fo... BENNET OMALU It sometimes puzzles me that so many people want to manage a football club, ... But fortunately that... GORDON MCDOUGALL NFL Head Coach, the third pillar in our NFL portfolio, was developed to satiate all those ... DALE JACKSON I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket. DANNY BOYLE The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to ... VICENTE DEL BOSQUE 'Football is only a game.' That is the most outrageous nonsense of the lot. Football is a science, i... TOM UTLEY If we put all of our eggs in one basket they will beat us another way. They can run the football, th... VICTOR ABIAMIRI What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a footbal... TIM TEBOW If you're a UT football fan, you're going there. We can't compete against that. We try not to have h... JEFF BUCH England really is the birthplace, the heart and soul of football. If Barcelona had Liverpool's f... XAVI Only Lorna and Coby are in the flat. Kenny is in England and he is about to play a football match. DAVID BALDWIN When you talk to people who play, the fantasy-baseball player tends to be more ardent than the fanta... DON LEVY Beasley is a great football player. He's intelligent and knows what it takes to win a football game.... DAN HOOKS There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which foot... GARY NEVILLE I don't know if I've ever been involved in a football game where we gave away so much so many times. JOE KINNAN I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the s... VICENTE DEL BOSQUE Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for ... TOMMY LEE JONES We played football tonight. We simplified things and talked about being football players and not spe... CHRIS HUTCHENS Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost... LAWRENCE JACKSON Last week was very disheartening to our team and our football coaching staff, and I'm sure our fans, WALT HARRIS Definitely. I'm really looking forward to being out there on the football field in front of all our ... JULIUS HODGE Coach Bell is our leader. By the fans not supporting Coach Bell, they're not supporting the football... DAVID KENNEBREW Wellington Mara was a dear friend and football fans everywhere mourn his passing. Throughout my tenu... DANIEL SNYDER We won't check if they're real fans. We got an inflated football we were supposed to hang, but some ... DAN BOYD
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THOMPSON I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. HUNTER S. THOMPSON I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It never got weird enough for me. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack... HUNTER S. THOMPSON was doldrums time. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet. HUNTER S. THOMPSON So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or... HUNTER S. THOMPSON I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t... HUNTER S. THOMPSON At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards. HUNTER S. THOMPSON No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc... HUNTER S. THOMPSON A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. HUNTER S. THOMPSON 1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat. 2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and... HUNTER S. THOMPSON All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- HUNTER S. THOMPSON The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch... HUNTER S. THOMPSON It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris... HUNTER S. THOMPSON and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly HUNTER S. THOMPSON I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a... HUNTER S. THOMPSON No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink... HUNTER S. THOMPSON We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ... HUNTER S. THOMPSON The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance HUNTER S. THOMPSON I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes. HUNTER S. THOMPSON Some may never live, but the crazy never die HUNTER S. THOMPSON We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river HUNTER S. THOMPSON This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Still humping the American Dream HUNTER S. THOMPSON The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal... HUNTER S. THOMPSON Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim... HUNTER S. THOMPSON What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment? HUNTER S. THOMPSON