Alone Quote by Frank Deford

Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million…

— Joe Paterno

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured…

— Pete Rozelle

Yes, I understand that football and sports in America have been a way for us to get away from some of our most daunting…

— Myron Rolle

Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys of color,…

— Steve Almond

We've got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we're worrying about. It's unbelievable to me. And as long…

— Jon Gruden

Sometimes we forget football is, first and foremost, entertainment. Sometimes we consider it a more important matter. It is but, at the same time,…

— Gianfranco Zola

Football is not, in my view, a sport: it is somewhere between a business racket and a mental illness. I associate it with all…

— Simon Heffer

Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it…

— Gabe Polsky

Football is a beautiful game, we have to respect that and let everything run normally.

— Victor Wanyama

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a…

— Don DeLillo

I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good…

— Gary Lineker

You watch guys talk about football, and you think that maybe it's really easy, and it's really not. Yeah, we've got the expertise because…

— Booger McFarland