American Professional Football

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

    “Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

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

    “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)