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
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.
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…
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…
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
If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
My thing is trying to convince them they can win. - Dick Butkus
My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
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!
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