University Football Team

Famous quotes containing the words university, football and/or team:

“It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)

“Once a word is spoken, a team of four horse cannot retake it.”
—Chinese proverb.