Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

- Chuck Bednarik

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there …

- Chuck Bednarik

And you get into that sort of cannibalistic feeling - all you want to do is go out there and, like I say, kill somebody. I'm going to get him. I'm go…

- Chuck Bednarik

About a minute-and-a-half to go. He goes on a down-and-in pass. As soon as he caught it, I really puffed him, and his head snapped and the ball flew,…

- Chuck Bednarik

For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play, it's a joke. Is it football? Ar…

- Chuck Bednarik

You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy…

- Chuck Bednarik