Country Quote by Howard Cosell

After all, is football a game or a religion?

— Howard Cosell

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

— Michael Novak

Sports is a unique thing in our country. It's so influential. It's almost like a sacrament for religion.

— Jaylen Brown

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

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

Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players think of a…

— Pele

For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society.

— Kylian Mbappe

Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.

— John Skipper

If sports has anything to do for society, football plays a great role.

— Steve Young

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

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

— Simon Gray

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