There are many reasons why I hate college football. The 4-hour games drone on longer than Steve Lyons during the American League playoffs. The ever-expanding season threatens to creep into early July. Boise, Idaho, hosts a bowl game. And it's played on blue artificial turf.
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Related Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me... BRETT FAVRE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League... JOE TORRE There's so much built-up camaraderie and sacrifice, and football is such a tough man's game.... TROY POLAMALU We're very excited. There is a little bit of animosity, a little rivalry between Calgary and Arizona... BOB HAMLEY American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over t... NOEL GALLAGHER I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regul... LEBRON JAMES If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during foo... KEYSHAWN JOHNSON We wanted a tough game going into playoffs. We wanted our 'A' game going into the playoffs. I felt i... MARC JONES We knew coming into this weekend we needed all the points we can get. We tied Manchester and we're t... CHAD WISEMAN I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW Wall Street has a bunch of football fans and it's something to do. But I really hate the thing. It m... JEFF HIRSCH I'm sorry, ... did you say Boris Karloff? THE LEAGUE There are too many games being played. The convention centre has become a political football. INNES COUN Southwest Idaho has been designated as Boise State's service region by the state Board of Education ... FRANK ZANG Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone... JOHN MADDEN I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But base... JIM JARMUSCH Players are tired of losing. They're tired of going home during bowl week and watching the bowl game... JAMES PINKNEY I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'... PETER LANDESMAN There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's ... ROSARIO DAWSON Based on our research, we anticipate our network will experience as much activity during the Final F... GREG HALLER They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL,... JOHN MADDEN During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on. BEN OAK During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say t... WALTER PAYTON The team was ravaged by illness early in the season, resulting in numerous games being played with s... DAVE PISTONE There's more than a few remnants left in German welfare policy today. Many Germans eagerly conde... SUZANNE FIELDS With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think ... JEFF ROSS We have set our goals very high for the season. They include winning the league title, getting into ... MATT BALLARD I watch television. Game shows - I hate the hosts and the people on them, and I love the questions a... HARRY DEAN STANTON The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever s... CHAD GREENWAY The challenge here is to win, to compete for the conference championship and to go to bowl games. Ye... DENNIS ERICKSON I've played this game since I was in second grade, and there's nothing more important to me ... AUSTIN SEFERIAN-JENKINS You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL On Warped Tour in Boise, Idaho, I broke my tooth on the mic. I took a pretty significant chunk out o... ANDY BIERSACK But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot... CHILI DAVIS In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl... KEVIN MCKIDD There are obviously great English players in the Premier League, and there have been so many fantast... FRANK LAMPARD We've all played football all our lives. This isn't the time to get nervous. This is what you play f... JASON FERGUSON Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on... JOSHUA BELL While he is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to explain why the Bush administration sold out th... HOWARD DEAN There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So ma... ROBERT GRIFFIN III During that hour after the game, especially during rush hour, the emphasis is on moving people out o... WAYNE WENTZ I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the... C.S. LEWIS Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD It's the same game. It's baseball. National League, American League. It's baseball. I ju... ASDRUBAL CABRERA I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but w... STEVE HARVEY I enjoy baseball. I go to the home baseball games, I got to the home basketball games. I don't trave... DARRELL ROYAL I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i... TOM WATSON The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke... DEANGELO WILLIAMS A bowl game is a reward for a successful season, and yes, you enjoy the experience to a certain leve... KARL DORRELL A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I'm a huge fan of the game. It's beyond a fringe benefit of obviously getting to work at the... ADAM SILVER There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I'm talking... J. J. WATT Major league baseball has asked its players to stop tossing baseballs into the stands during games, ... JAY LENO You only get one rookie season. So, I hate that we lost, but this was one of the best games I've eve... CHRIS PAUL It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way ... FRANK GIFFORD It is wonderful, ... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the wa... FRANK GIFFORD I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11... ALEXIS ARGUELLO Facing Dallas, it's bigger than your biggest rival ever in college or high school. It's a real rival... GARY WALKER When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a S... CALVIN JOHNSON Nikki is throwing well and it's still early. We've only played 15 games. She always gets better as t... CLIFFORD KIRK I can sit here and think of a million reasons why it hasn't happened, ... I believe it's coming. No,... MIKE SINGLETARY Sunday games are always a struggle for us, but luckily Wisconsin is playing on Thursday, which is th... EMILY FRANCIS I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a f... MELISSA MCCARTHY In our league every game is important because there are only five games. The key to our season last ... DENNIS STUBBS It was a good way to kick off our spring break with a win over Idaho today. The guys played well and... GRAEME COX China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding. LEE H. HAMILTON This was the best we've played this season, all three games. We played really well, even the Nacogdo... CHRIS YODER I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S... ANDREW LUCK Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to wi... DOUG FLUTIE I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s... SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD I just think you have to focus on what got you here. In the playoffs there are so many upsets in the... ED PULTZ I think the first part of the season, he was new to the league and he was feeling his responsibiliti... BUDDY BAILEY We haven't been beaten [at Spartan] in two games this year. The playoffs are going to be fun. I thin... COLIN CLARKE The games are staggered otherwise. The objective is to give as many fans as possible the chance to w... BUD SELIG We talked. But they didn't think I could hold up on the field turf, that's really what it came down ... FRANK THOMAS The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather th... GRAHAM TAYLOR VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There... MASAYOSHI SON If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in a... CASEY STENGEL Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward. ZENA WYNN Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them. DENIS LEARY There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe... HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee... JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the... JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. JACK KEROUAC As the college football season starts, what better way to spend an autumn afternoon? We attended 18 ... DAVE HOLLINGSWORTH This was a big win in terms of the District 1 (Class) AAA playoffs. We are two games ahead of them, ... ERNIE QUATRANI From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probab... RANDY WEST The season is a beast within itself. It's not the quickest race; it's a marathon. In the pla... JERRY WEST Paul unfortunately has relapsed into alcohol abuse. It wasn't just away from the football club, it w... IMRAAN LADAK It's football all day on Sunday. I wish we had football every day; that would make me way happie... GUY FIERI I might be in a little decline. I don't know. How many guys that have played 150 games are still... LOGAN MANKINS We have a football fund that is funded by the National Football League and the National Football Lea... CEDRIC JONES
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STEPHEN RICHARDS The scariest moment is always just before you start. STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo... STEPHEN KING The road to hell is paved with adverbs. STEPHEN KING If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. STEPHEN KING Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe... STEPHEN KING He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ... STEPHEN HARRIGAN [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today. STEPHEN KING