American Professional Football

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

    “Lincoln becomes the American solar myth, the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “... all professional ideologies are high-minded. Hunters, for instance, would not dream of calling themselves the butchers of the woods.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)

    “People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
    —Don Delillo (b. 1926)