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.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible it's unbelievable.

Academe n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy n.: A modern school where football is taught.

If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

If you look at the footballers you look at our celebrity culture we seem to be saying 'This is the way you want to be'. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

People who work together will win whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug or a smile from their father or a 'Let's go play football.'