Famous quotes containing the words english and/or football:
“The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.”
—Thomas Beecham (1879–1961)
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)