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

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

"I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school."

"We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world."

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

"Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football."

"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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"Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood."

"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines."

"If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest."

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

"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
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