American life Quote by Pete Rozelle

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football…

— Jim Irsay

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

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

— Chuck Bednarik

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it…

— John Facenda

Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their minds. It's…

— Steve Almond

I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that goes in…

— Alexis Sanchez

The fact of the matter is that people don't understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don't…

— Ed Reed

Football represents and embodies everything that's great about this country, because the United States of America is built on winners, not losers or people…

— Woody Hayes

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

— John Riggins

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

There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game. I think that's why it's so popular. That's why…

— Troy Polamalu

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