Jack Kemp Quotes About Football
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.
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Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.
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I think it is important for all those young out there - who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands - [that] a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.
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Jack Kemp
- Born: July 13, 1935
- Died: May 2, 2009
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development