Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said,Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 9:3^5.

I have a little black book with two players in it, and if Iget a chanceto dothem Iwill.Iwill makethemsuffer before I pack this game in. If I can kick them four years over the touch-line, I will.

-Charlton,Jack (John)
  Remark to reporters, which led to severe trouble with the soccer authorities. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It's me Auntie Maggie's home-made remedy Guaranteed never to fail Now that's the stuff that will do the trick It's sold at ev'ry chemist for 'one and a kick'.

-Formby, George
  'Auntie Maggie's Remedy' (with Eddie Latta), song featured in the film Turned Out Nice Again.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day likea football, and it will be round and full at evening.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.5.

   I get no kick from champagne; Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you?

-Porter, Cole
  'I Get a Kick Out ofYou', from the show Anything Goes.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

  That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out but they never let you down.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.3.