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Jimmy Breslin

"Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets."

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"I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say."

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"This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died."

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"As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins."

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"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."

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"When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys."

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"I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball."

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"Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight."

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"I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession."

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"No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout."

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"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."

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"Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me."
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