Professional Football Player

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

    “As a scientist I’m afraid I’m a professional skeptic who doubts everything, even the certainties.”
    —Karl Brown (1897–1990)

    “In this dream that dogs me I am part
    Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
    Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
    All moving the same way.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “It is a fundamental characteristic of civilization that man most profoundly mistrusts those living outside his own milieu, so that not only does the Teuton regard the Jew as an incomprehensible and inferior being, but the football player likewise so regards the piano player.”
    —Robert Musil (1880–1942)