“America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.” ShouldFactsAmericaPoliticalNationsPayFootballHonorVoteRaisesBillsSurpriseDebtObligationCharlieCeilingsPredictableRantDebt Ceiling Author:Peter Welch
“American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.” MenWorldStillsAmericaSportsLossFootballFeminineMasculineArtistryAmerican Football Author:Noel Gallagher
“I played football for seven years in Spain and was called everything because I was from South America, and I never went out crying like a baby, like Patrice Evra, saying that someone had said something to me.” YearsSaidAmericaCryFootballBabySouthSevenSpainSeven YearsSouth America Author:Gus Poyet
“If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?” IfsNeedsFirstsAmericaThreeCasesFourPlayerFootballIndiaManagersSoccerSailChairmanColumbus Author:Claudio Ranieri
“I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been blessed to play a role in educating players and fans about the culture and history of America's southernmost territory.” Has BeensPlayAmericaCultureRolesPlayerFansFootballBlessedAthleteLeagueTerritoryHeritageProfessional Athlete Author:Troy Polamalu
“Does anyone actually think that Beckham knows he's in America? I think he just follows a football and all he notices is that it occasionally gets warmer.” ThinkingKnowsDoeHumorFunnyAmericaFootballBeckham Author:Frankie Boyle
“To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.” ThinkingYearsAmericaPastWishFootballTwentiesBowlsSuggestionsOver The PastSuper BowlDeath WishSumptuous Author:Don DeLillo
“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.” AmericaFootballCollegeHigherAffairAfternoonSaturdayCollege FootballSaturday AfternoonHigher Learning Author:Robert M. Hutchins
“America needs football. It's a real blue-collar sport; it's played with a blue-collar mentality, a mentality that's the backbone of this country.” NeedsRealCountryAmericaSportsFootballBlueMentalityCollarsBackboneBlue Collar Author:Troy Polamalu
“The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.” AmericaSportsBlackWhitePoorFootballBasketballMassConservativeWealthyArenaLatinoStadiumsBlack White Author:Jason Whitlock
“I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really.” GivingMindTogetherAmericaChanceWrittenMovementFootballCrowdsEnjoyed Author:John Lennon
“I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.” WellsLittlesStatesSchoolAmericaSportsUnitedSituationBoysUnited StatesFootballBasketballBaseballHorribleLeagueUnited States Of AmericaLittle LeagueLittle League Baseball Author:Ira Glass
“It's something I think probably every football team and sports team in America deals with is having people get out of their comfort zone and being courageous enough to fix other people and not just focus on themselves.” PeopleThinkingEnoughAmericaSportsDealsFocusTeamFootballComfortZoneCourageousComfort ZoneFootball TeamSports Team Author:Scott Frost
“I love football. Love it. Love it. I think it's the last bastion of hope for toughness in America in men, in males.” ThinkingMenLastsAmericaFootballMalesToughnessI Love Football Author:Jim Harbaugh
“If I may make a football analogy, we're a team whether we're a football team or community or the United States of America. We are part of a team and I believe the people on that team have a right, but they also have the obligation if there is something that is not good or we don't agree on, to speak about it.” PeopleIfsBelieveMayStatesAmericaSpeakI BelieveCommunityUnitedUnited StatesTeamFootballAgreeObligationUnited States Of AmericaAnalogiesFootball Team Author:Jim Harbaugh
“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.” ArtAmericaKindnessFootballBandTheaterGood ThingsJazzEtcMuseumsAmerican FootballJazz MusicianVeneerRougeJazz Band Book:Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy Source: Santayana on America: Essays, Notes, and Letters on American Life, Literature, and Philosophy
“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” TwoInspirationAmericaViolenceWorstFootballMeetingsNflCommitteesWorst ThingsAmerican FootballPunctuationSports FootballFunny SportsFunny American Football Author:George Will