Famous quotes containing the words football, wide and/or receiver:
“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)
“It was a wide and moony grin
Together peaceful and obscene;”
—Howard Nemerov (b. 1920)
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)