Dick Butkus quotes:
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The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
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When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.
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Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
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If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.
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The bottom line is that these athletes tend to be safer investments because they really value their marketing opportunities. They don't make as much money as during their active careers.
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
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I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!
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If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
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If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
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I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.
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Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
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Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.
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My thing is trying to convince them they can win.