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Best Football Quotes by Dick Butkus
- 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.
More Best Football Quotes
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- I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. — Terry Bradshaw
- As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about… — Terry Bradshaw
- Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up… — Terry Bradshaw
- When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a… — Dick Butkus
- Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the… — Troy Aikman
- I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself. — Troy Aikman
- It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and… — Marcus Allen
- But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody. — Marcus Allen
- He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way. — Sammy Baugh
- Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game. — Chuck Bednarik