I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.
The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.