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Image, I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about

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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head

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There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, Teams are made up of a lot of components. They’re made up

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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, I think the older you are, the more you’re going to cling

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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

—Buzz Bissinger

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Image, In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet

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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and

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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

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Well I just always wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, Maybe it’s a tired tale, but without an education, you’re not going to go anywhere.

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Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

—Buzz Bissinger

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Image, If you leave your wife and you don’t ever contact her again,

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If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you’ve never been to before.

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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and

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But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, Athletics: it’s a wonderful thing, it’s a spell-binding thing, nothing in life

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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.

—Buzz Bissinger

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Image, I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot

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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out

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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New

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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

—Buzz Bissinger

Image, I don’t have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one.

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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

—Buzz Bissinger