Art Donovan Quotes

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• The best way to die is sit under a tree, eat lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer, then blow up.
• The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.
• We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.
• I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.
• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since…
• The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
• I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.
• There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
• People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player.…
• I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
• I went to college to play football, not to study it.
• Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti…
• I never met a cold cut I didn't like.
• You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.
• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow…
• I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
• I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept…

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