Chuck Bednarik famous quotes

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  • 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.

  • There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on.

  • For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  • 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.

  • You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

  • The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

  • They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

  • Fear that man who fears not God.

  • We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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