Football Hooliganism/south America

Famous quotes containing the words football, south and/or america:

    “Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
    —David Storey (b. 1933)

    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)