Retired Football Player

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

    “If you want an expert on war, you get a retired general. I’m not exactly a general, but I am retired.”
    —Sydney Biddle Barrows (b. 1952)

    “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)

    “The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)