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Jimmy Breslin

"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."

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

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

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"I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please."

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"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."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"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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"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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"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."
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"Complainant received immediate lacerations of the credibility."
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"The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal."
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"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."
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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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"When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place."
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