FIAF - Information about American football in Italy.
American Football - The career of coach Alfonso Genchi. His last championships.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Football, American Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Football, American
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Football, American You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Football, American
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Football, American A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Football, American
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Football, American Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Football, American
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Football, American Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Football, American
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Football, American "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Football, American
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Football, American blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Football, American
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Football, American I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Football, American
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Football, American Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Football, American
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Football, American Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Football, American
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Football, American Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Football, American
