“Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.” TodayParentDecisionInfluenceAwarenessDangerFootballAthleteCoachesBuyingHelmetConcussions Author:Tom Udall
“There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.” IdeasRealityTodayFilmLiteratureNationsTeamFootballConceptsRadioCurrentsBroadsFootball TeamOutdated Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud
“When I played football was somewhat taboo for a girl. Today it's not as much of a problem. Not all girls want to play football but it's not a case of 'Oh my god she plays football, that's a bit odd.' It's a lot more accepted now.” WantPlayProblemTodayGirlBitsCasesFootballAcceptedOddTaboo Author:Hope Powell
“College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.” TodayLastsFootballCollegeGenuineHypocrisyOld FashionedCollege FootballStrongholds Author:Noel Gallagher
“I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.” PeopleFactsHomeTodayBeautifulLife IsFeltMinutesFootballPrideManagersSoccerChairmanLife Is BeautifulToday Life Author:Arsene Wenger
“I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.” SaidTodayLastsWinningTreeWeekFootballUglyManagersSoccerChairman Author:Terry Butcher
“Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.” WellsChildrenPlayTodayTurnsSportsRoomsToo MuchTelevisionFootballWalkingExerciseOur ChildrenSeatsClimbingTurn-onStadiumsClimbing Up Author:John F. Kennedy
“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
“Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.” PeopleKnowsShouldMindCountryTodayPoliticsNamesSportsNumbersMillionsPlayerFootballTvsBasketballLettersBaseballStrategyRadioFollowingChinaCoachesNewspapersTeaSpectators Author:Frank Nugent
“Today, professional football is about profit and making money. But it's not about how much money you spend, it's about how wisely you spend it.” TodayFootballProfitMaking Money Author:John Riggins
“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
“You need players that stand for emotion in football. Football today is a game for television.” NeedsTodayGamesEmotionPlayerTelevisionFootball Author:Berti Vogts
“When I was growing up in Baltimore, the Colts were not just a team that played in the city. It was part of the city. Football players didn't make close to the money they make today and most took jobs in the off-season. Some were mechanics, others worked at furniture stores, and you could find them drinking at a neighborhood watering hole.” TodayJobsCitiesGrowing UpGrowingPlayerTeamFootballSeasonsDrinkingStoresHolesNeighborhoodMechanicFurnitureFootball PlayerBaltimoreOff SeasonColts Author:Barry Levinson
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.” IfsInspirationalDoneBigsSeemsTodaySportsHavensFootballCollegeAchievementSelf ImprovementImprovementYesterdayChampionCoachingMotivational SportsGreat Football Author:Lou Holtz
“I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.” IfsWantBelieveMatterHappensTodayOpportunityGivenI BelieveSportsFootballPrideEqualIndiaHockeyPlatformsCricketIndigenousSportsmanNational Pride Author:Abhishek Bachchan
“The game of business used to be like football: size mattered. Then it changed to basketball: speed and agility. Today, business is more like chess. Customer priorities change continually, and the signals given by these changes are vital clues to the next cycle of growth.” TodayUsedNextGamesGivenGrowthChangedFootballBasketballSizeCustomersSpeedPrioritiesChessUsed To BeCyclesSignalsClueAgility Author:Adrian Slywotzky
“Football today would certainly not be the same if it had not existed.” IfsTodayFootball Author:Elton Welsby
“I believe it is right when not only me, but also my colleagues - the prime minister, ministers, deputies of the State Duma - when they, like today, for example, participate in two marathons, when they visit football matches, when they themselves take part in sport competitions. That is how, inter alia, millions of people start feeling interest in and love for fitness and sports. I believe it is extremely important.” PeopleBelieveTwoImportantStatesFeelingsTodayI BelieveSportsInterestMillionsExampleFootballAnd LoveCompetitionMinistersPrimeColleaguesPrime MinisterMarathonDeputiesSports CompetitionFootball Match Author:Vladimir Putin
“I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it [Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance] in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.” ShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensMadeSaidTodayArtistGamesDecisionWalksGoneFieldsFootballSittingShould HaveSickMadBoxesManagersMakeupMudStadiumsNot HappyFootball FieldMakeup ArtistLimos Author:Stevie Nicks
“Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and I think what set him apart was his dedication and hard work.” ThinkingWorldHardTodayFootballHard WorkDedicationFrankChelseaBest EverHard Work And Dedication Author:John Terry
“Even a hundred and fifty years ago, football was popular because it provided a manly spectacle that lots of men needed, after the industrial revolution. We went from a culture that lived out doors and expanded the frontier and fought the Indians to a bunch of guys in offices. So football provided this jolt, a kind of exalted cult of masculinity. And it still does that. Perhaps even more so today.” MenYearsKindDoeStillsTodayGuyCultureDoorsFootballRevolutionNeededOfficeHundredYears AgoBunchFiftyCultMasculinityFrontiersExaltedManlyIndustrial Revolution Author:Steve Almond
“Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas "wars."” NeedsWarTodayGivenClearFootballOffersResolutionCombat Author:Steve Almond
“There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.” IfsKnowsTodayOpportunityFootballStonesRoundsSoccerPredictionsThings ChangeNo Point Author:Cristiano Ronaldo