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I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game.

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.