John Facenda quotes
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“Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.”
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“It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun,”
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“Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.”
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“Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.”
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“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”
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“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”
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Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
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“I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.”
Source : "Adrian Peterson Credits His Parents' Tough Discipline for His Success" by Meghan Keneally, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2014.
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Source : Abd al-Karim Qasim's historical extempore speech at the Reserve Officers' College, 1959.
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