#foot

Billy tries to imagine the vast systems that support these athletes. They are among the best-cared for creatures in the history of the planet, beneficiaries of the best nutrition, the latest technologies, the finest medical care, they live at the very pinnacle of American innovation and abundance, which inspires an extraordinary thought - send them to fight the war! Send them just as they are this moment, well rested, suited up, psyched for brutal combat, send the entire NFL! Attack with all our bears and raiders, our ferocious redskins, our jets, eagles, falcons, chiefs, patriots, cowboys - how could a bunch of skinny hajjis in man-skits and sandals stand a chance against these all-Americans? Resistance is futile, oh Arab foes. Surrender now and save yourself a world of hurt, for our mighty football players cannot be stopped, they are so huge, so strong, so fearsomely ripped that mere bombs and bullets bounce off their bones of steel. Submit, lest our awesome NFL show you straight to the flaming gates of hell! ↗

— Ben Fountain

#sarcasm #imagination

I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly. We want to be remembered. So remember us. Please. Remember us. ↗

— Mike A. Lancaster

#life #remember #life

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#futbol #hamm #mia #mia-hamm #shooting

So my dad raised me, and he's a huge football fan. ↗

— Lisa Guerrero

#fan #football #huge #me #raised

We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly. If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to. But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world. ↗

— George Monbiot

#human-footprint #monbiot #economy

Football is a sad game. ↗

— George Best

#game #sad

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#every #father #footsteps #gets #his

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#am #confident #foot #i #i am

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ↗

— Tom Landry

#football #game #incredible #sometimes #unbelievable

So someday in the near future hopefully rather than having a foot or a leg amputated we'll just give you an injection of the cells and restore the blood flow. We've also created entire tubes of red blood cells from scratch in the laboratory. So there are a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#amputated #blood #cells #created #entire