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“My father wanted me to play pro football, and he didn't like the fact that I'd left school. And he said, "It takes a man to play football. And any fool can go up on the stage and make an ass of himself.”

Men Said Play Facts Wanted School Father Left Stage Football Fool Ass Pro Football

Author:Bill Cosby

“Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.”

Father Football Son Brother Baseball Backyards Father And Son

Book:Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

Source: Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)

“My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.”

Father Sports Sound Voice Football Hearing

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“I don't dream football. I dream the American Dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.”

Two Dream Father Car Football Nfl American Dream Garage

Author:Barry Sanders

“I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.”

People Want Trying Stories Father Games Football Grew Grew Up Idols Telling Stories

Author:Cam Newton

“I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.”

Thinking Hands Jobs Father Football Summer Lays Bricks Catching Helpers Bricklayers

Author:Jerry Rice

“I couldn't catch a ball if it had Elmer's Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn't know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father's Day, I used to limp for him.”

Ifs Knows Used Father Stars Football Balls Over It Exes Glue Polio Chorus Line

Author:Matthew West

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard