Chuck Klosterman Quotes About Football
-
Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.
→ -
The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.
→ -
A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
→ -
What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.
→
Related Authors
-
Nick Hornby Novelist -
David Sedaris Humorist -
Lester Bangs Journalist -
Jack Kerouac Novelist -
Sloane Crosley Writer -
Craig Finn Singer -
Jonathan Franzen Novelist -
Malcolm Gladwell Journalist -
Nic Sheff Author -
Dave Eggers Writer -
Randy Cohen Writer -
Bret Easton Ellis Novelist -
Marc Maron Comedian -
John Berendt Author -
Chuck Palahniuk Novelist -
Padgett Powell Novelist -
Julie Gregory Author -
David Foster Wallace Novelist -
Bill Simmons Sports Columnist -
Rob Sheffield Journalist