American Professional Football

Famous quotes containing the words american, professional and/or football:

    “In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I’ve seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.”
    —Anthony Storr (b. 1920)

    “In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)