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"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"But we're not supposed to talk anything besides football."
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"The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of work. To begin with they had to kill him."

"Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage."

"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."

"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."

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

"Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks."

"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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