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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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Hurt #Games
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Horse #Sex #Healthy
“The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Real #Love And Respect
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Mom #Team #Reality
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Athlete #Opportunity #Careers
“If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Smart #Player
“If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Way #Best Football
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Player #Becoming
“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!”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Mean #Doubt
“My thing is trying to convince them they can win.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Winning #Trying
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Regret #Games
“We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Football #Challenges #Schedules
“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.”
-- Dick Butkus

#Thinking #Mental Health #Framework

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