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“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.”

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Author:Bud Selig

“The poor Geordies are in the process of being rebuffed by every sentient human being whose ambition in life is more than simply to pocket six million quid for having been a failure and run for the hills. They want beautiful, flowing football and tangible success, at St James' Park. Fine. I, meanwhile, want Jessica Alba and the Nobel prize for literature. I make my prospects slightly more realistic.”

“Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.”

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Book:Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place.”

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Book:The soccer tribe

Source: The soccer tribe

“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.”

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Author:Edward Smith

“The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

“You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.”

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Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

“Football is hope. To be a better human being but also hope one day, one day, to leave your country to be somewhere, let's say admired, as a football star.”

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Author:Sepp Blatter

“Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.”

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Author:Jerry Kramer

“Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.”

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Author:Steve Almond

“The people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.”

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Author:Ricky Williams