Analysis Quote by Carl Sagan

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.

— Malcolm Allison

Football originated as a working man's game.

— Simon Jordan

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

— Bill Watterson

Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.

— Berti Vogts

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to…

— Charlie Pierce

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000…

— Arnold J. Mandell

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms.…

— Edward Abbey

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our incoherent overseas…

— Steve Almond

Football is a game.

— Eric Reid

We have professional football, but we also have a beautiful game which, wherever you go, can be used as a social tool for change.…

— Juan Mata

As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation -…

— Anonymous

Football is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to…

— Robert Baden-Powell