“We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.” PeopleThinkingGamesGrowsWatchesDoubtMiddleTelevisionFootballStoresSurvivorInchesEpisodesGroceriesGrocery StoresWirelessFootball Game Author:Leslie Moonves
“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.” WantHelpingBodyPoliticalSituationClassPlansMiddleFootballEconomicsSickTablesTreatedKitchenMiddle ClassConcreteMen WomenKitchen TableSo SickMacroeconomics Author:Celinda Lake
“A normal adolescent is so restless and twitchy and awkward that he can mange to injure his knee--not playing soccer, not playing football--but by falling off his chair in the middle of French class.” FallClassMiddleFootballNormalSoccerKneesChairsAwkwardRestlessPlaying FootballFalling OffPlaying Soccer Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex
“If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from an underestimation of their needs. Our idea of what a child needs in each case reflects what parents need. The child's needs are thus a cultural football in an economic and marital game.” IfsNeedsMayChildrenIdeasTodayMotherSufferingGamesParentClassCasesEconomicMiddleCenturyFootballAccomplishmentMiddle Class Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just have to choose between being proletarian or middle-class. Those kinds of things do not exist anymore. Today working class boys can play football and become multimillionaires. On football! There are no longer classes, who say that we are poor, we are suppressed by you etc.” WantKindPlayTodayPoorTalkingClassBoysMiddleFootballComplainingEtcMiddle ClassWorking ClassAbout Success Author:Odd Nerdrum
“If everyone's happy, then I'm the character where when I enter that means there's trouble. In a movie, when I enter, it's not a good thing. But I know where I'm at. But, you know, you don't have to call me by my character's name for months on end. Football taught me that, because you can go from being best friends to having to play that person on another team, you have to be able to turn that on and off. You need to find that middle ground.” IfsKnowsNeedsMeanPersonsEndsPlayCharacterAbleTurnsNamesTroubleTeamMiddleFootballTaughtMonthsGood ThingsCall MeAnd OffMiddle Ground Author:Terry Crews