“Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.” TwoBigsTogetherWinningCommunityTeamFootballMajorsAreasBaseballLeagueTexasOhioColumbusFootball TeamMajor LeagueAustinMetropolitanMajor League BaseballWinning FootballAustin TexasColumbus Ohio Author:Brent Musburger
“I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham and Manchester, and you know the bin-workers' strike, all wrapped up in it... They were violent times. Violence at home and violence at football matches.” KnowsHomeRememberCommunityViolenceFootballWorkersWinterStrikesViolentClosingBombingManchesterBirminghamIraFootball Match Author:Noel Gallagher
“Many people hold me ultimately responsible toward the actions and reputation of the global football community. I cannot monitor everyone all of the time.” PeopleActionCommunityFootballResponsibleReputationHold Me Author:Sepp Blatter
“If you haven't got a gun, you can't shoot anyone. We need to look at how these guns are getting into our communities. It's about replacing the negativity with good stuff. Give kids music studios in the community they can use for free and see how they learn to work together. Football and music unify kids.” IfsNeedsGivingLooksUseKidsTogetherStuffCommunityHavensFootballGunStudiosWorking TogetherNegativityOur Community Author:Ashley Walters
“My childhood proved to me that there could be no enjoyment of football without community. But it becomes difficult when this community is having problems with its identity. That's when we experience all possible forms of nationalist exaggeration.” ProblemFormDifficultCommunityChildhoodIdentityFootballEnjoymentExaggeration Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK (60,000 seats); having the largest support (52,000 season book holders) of any club in Britain. This has been achieved by everyone who cares about Celtic working together towards a shared vision of football success and pride in a club which is part of our culture, open to all and a responsible member of the community working to help others where it can.” YearsHas BeensMadeBookHelpingCareTogetherCultureWinningCommunityVisionSupportFourProgressBuildingFootballPrideMembersSeasonsResponsibleClubsHelping OthersLeagueSeatsBritainWorking TogetherMassiveFour YearsChampionshipWho CaresStadiumsCelticShared Vision Author:Fergus McCann
“The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.” PeopleReasonCommunityViolenceDangerousFootballIntellectualArguingPhysicality Author:Chuck Klosterman
“It's time for the New England Patriots to move on and that's what our job is. And as I said, our goal is the same: to have a winning football team, to be a pillar in the community. That's what our direction is; that's what we're going to do.” SaidJobsMovingWinningGoalCommunityTeamFootballEnglandPatriotPillarsFootball TeamNew EnglandWinning FootballNew England Patriots Author:Bill Belichick
“If we write our laws and design them around the most privileged members of society, i.e., billionaire football team owner, then we forget about the people who don't have the same resources to make an appeal, to fight a wrongful accusation. Those tend to be members of the LGBT community and people of color because those are the people who tend to engage in the work of reappropriation to subvert discrimination. And yet those are the same ones being denied, based on their own identities.” PeopleIfsWritingLawFightingCommunityForgetTeamDesignIdentityFootballColorMembersResourcesDiscriminationAppealsOwnersLgbtDeniedPrivilegedBillionaireAccusationFootball TeamLgbt Community Author:Simon Tam
“Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.” IfsYearsMeanSaidCountryHappensWould BeLastsCommunityForgetImagineViolenceFootballGrewOfficeViolentVulnerableEtcPairsIntoleranceLast YearForget It Author:Steve Almond
“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