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.
—Eugene McCarthy
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
—George Will
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
—Reggie Watts
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
—Joe Theismann