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.
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
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
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… - Dick 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. Tough. I was…
My thing is trying to convince them they can win. - Dick Butkus
My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
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
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.
If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways. - Dick Butkus
If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
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 real… - Dick Butkus
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 real…
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
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 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
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!
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 gam… - Dick Butkus
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 gam…
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