Jack Kemp Football Quotations

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.

I played football.. my football was kosher.. no pigskin.

Football is a metaphor for the kind of country we want to create. It's based on merit.

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, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

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.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.