There is a rather large number of Americans that believe American Thanksgiving is all about the football games – “Praise the Lord and pass the gravy!”
Of course, not everyone believes this. American humourist Erma Bombeck mused: “If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
However, even she admitted: “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
So, on this, one of America’s biggest of football days, let’s honour this celebrated sport. Here are 15 of our favourite pigskin quotes.
- Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. – Vince Lombardi
- Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable. – Tom Landry
- Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi
- The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. – John Madden
- Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. – Vince Lombardi
- Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. – John Heisman
- Football is not a contact sport. It’s a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport. – Duffy Daugherty
- When you win, nothing hurts. – Joe Namath
- Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. – Roger Staubach
- Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. – Vince Lombardi
- Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will
- If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn’t the same as the one I was wearing, I’d run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother. – Bo Jackson
- Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up – Knute Rockne
- Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. – Frank Gifford
- 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 generations of anthropological time. – Arnold Mandell
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