“College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.”

“College football was a religion in Alabama, and Saturdays in the fall were holy days.”

“Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America”

“Where else but America could football flourish, America with its millions of fertile acres of corn, soy, and wheat, its lakes of dairy, its year-round gushers of fruits and vegetables, and such meats, that extraordinary pipline of beef, poultry, seafood, and pork, feedlot gorged, vitamin enriched, and hypodermically immunized, humming factories of high-velocity protein production, all of which culminate after several generations of epic nutrition in this strain of industrial-sized humans? Only America could produce such giants.”

“Football is violence and cold weather and college rye. ”

“By means of industry and perseverance you will rise higher and higher.”