John Heisman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.
-- John Heisman

#Football #College #Games
What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman

#Football #Boys #Rubber
When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.
-- John Heisman

#Weakness #Hammers #Opponents
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman

#Football #Boys #Gentleman
To break training without permission is an act of treason.
-- John Heisman

#Training #Break #Permission

Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.
I wouldn't watch football if it wasn't for Lord Bendtner
I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. Thatâ€™s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I canâ€™t really explain why.
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behaviour not otherwise excusable.
The thing you realize as you get older and you play, that you don't really understand when you're a backup the first few offseasons, how important that mental rest is. It's a grind physically during the season, dealing with the hits and the physical pain that goes with playing in this game. But mentally it's probably more taxing, so you need that ability to find that escape.
Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

John Heisman famous quotes

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