Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Red Smith

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• I think the important thing we have to remember about football in this country is that it is very vibrant, and it's very good to watch, not only in the flesh but also on TV, because our stadiums are full.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Football
  • Doing
  • Look

• I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • College
  • Church
  • Football

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Great
  • Football
  • Wall

• I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• In my 20 years in football, I was fortunate enough never to have experienced relegation. And while there is the pressure of expectations at the top of the league, at the bottom it comes in fear and trepidation, which is almost worse.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Fear
  • Football
  • Expectations

• My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Dad

• I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hate
  • Football
  • New York

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• I was always doing something physical. My brothers and I used to have handstand contests. We'd walk around the projects on our hands and see who could get the farthest. I was always playing football with them, basketball or racing in the street.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Football
  • Basketball
  • Walk

• Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Country
  • Team
  • Best

• It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Football
  • Cards

• The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Good
  • Game
  • Pretty

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Me
  • Football
  • Forget

• All I really have going is football. I don't know what I would do without it.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Football

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Reaction
  • Opponents
  • Energetic

• Because of dissociation, many victims are able to remember the abuse only when a certain object, smell, color, scene, or experience triggers a sudden, severe reaction. During a flashback one seems to see, feel, hear, smell, or taste something from the past as if it were actually happening in the present. In a visual flashback, you actually see the scene of your abuse, or you may see an object or image that reminds you or is symbolic of your abuse.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Remember
  • Image
  • Taste

• There's a lot of trickery that can go on in the studio, and there's a lot that one can do - none of which I am interested in even slightly. I mean, you can actually tune vocals and stuff like that, but it's so hideous, I can't believe it.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Believe

• It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

  

  Red Smith
  • Football
  • Players
  • Ideal