Dick Butkus Quotes

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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…
• We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
• 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…
• My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
• 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!
• 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.…
• If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
• If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
• 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…
• Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said…
• The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
• 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.
• 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…
• I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
• I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or…

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