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“Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.”

War Football Metaphor Masculine

Author:Jane Lynch

“My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.”

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Book:Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.”

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Book:Serenity: A Boxing Memoir

Source: Serenity: A Boxing Memoir

“If I were going to war I would want to be alongside an Englishman not a Frenchman. The Frenchman would think too much.”

Ifs Thinking Want War Too Much Football Managers Soccer Chairman Englishmen Frenchmen Going To War

Author:Arsene Wenger

“Drogba is a fighter. He is the kind of player I would say 'With you I could go to every war.'”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“It is like when you go to war: we have to know how our enemies attack and defend.”

Knows War Enemy Know How Football Managers Soccer Chairman

Author:Jose Mourinho

“Look at my haircut. I am ready for the war. The objective is to win the Premiershp. I don't want to dominate, to finish without defeat, record points or goals or consecutive wins. The Premiership is so difficult you cannot be focused on that. I just think about winning.”

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Author:Jose Mourinho

“Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.”

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Author:Sven-Goran Eriksson

“There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.”

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Author:Cam Newton

“The debate analysis in the media is rampant with contest analogies of war, baseball, boxing, football; you name it. Any testosterone contest imaginable is fair game.”

War Games Names Media Football Fairs Baseball Debate Analysis Boxing Contests Analogies Testosterone Fair Game

Author:Jonathan Raymond

“One of the things that I noticed in war was how difficult it was for our soldiers, at first, to realize that there are no rules to war. Our men were raised in sports, where a referee runs a football game, or an umpire a baseball game, and so forth.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.”

“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."”

Needs War Today Given Clear Football Offers Resolution Combat

Author:Steve Almond

“Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

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Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America