“Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.”

“Tackle football is a body-mind sport; flag football is a mind-body sport.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football.... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

“Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.”

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds

“I know Madrid is a special club. Madrid is politics. Madrid is not about football, Madrid is not about sport, is about many things around.”

José Mourinho (1963) Portuguese association football player and manager

“In fact, a crowd of men acts like a single woman.”

George Goodman (1930–2014) American author and economics commentator

“I like being very loud and noisy, as the title of my album says.”

Skye Sweetnam (1988) Canadian singer-songwriter

“My dreams — even they're not as populous as they should be.
They hold more solitude than noisy crowds.”

Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer

“I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul