The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.