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

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

“Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.”

“Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn’t matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.”

“I am embarrassingly incompetent at football or any kind of team sport. I’m so bad it would anger you.”

“My idea, my dream, my goal, is to go out and legitimize this sport and compete at the Olympic Games with my peers in the football arena.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think it is important for all those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.”

“It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.”