Dick Butkus's Quotes

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.

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 something.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

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.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.

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.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.