"People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don't want football to get involved in the same types of court cases, racial problems and legislative issues they encounter in the rest of American life."

-- Pete Rozelle

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“We have to convince people that the handouts â€“ just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, thatâ€™s not a life. Thatâ€™s not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation,”
“Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.”
“everyone knows how to love because we are all born with that gift.”
“Before thy undertaking of any design, weigh the glory of thy action with the danger of the attempt; if the glory outweigh the danger, it is cowardice to neglect it; if the danger exceed the glory, it is rashness to attempt it; if the balances stand poised, let thy own genius cast them.”
“Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.”
“If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.”
“There is no reason to regard God as immune from consideration along the spectrum of probabilities. And there is certainly no reason to suppose that, just because God can be neither proved nor disproved, his probability of existence is 50 per cent.”
“I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.”

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