Quotes on Best Football

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.

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!

I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.