Quotes by Dick Butkus - Page 1

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
Dick Butkus / Football Player
Convince
Football
Nfl
Winning
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If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
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Football
Nfl
Old Ways
Way
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The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
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Sports
Football
Real
Real Reason
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If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.
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Football
Player
Smart
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
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Mark
Check
Schedule
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We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
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Challenges
Football
Nfl
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If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.
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Healthy
Horse
Sex
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I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.
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Hurt
Deliberately
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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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Football
Mean
Nfl
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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.
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Hurt
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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.
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Sports
Football
Hurt
Important
League
Pro Football
Anyone
Played
Game
Deliberately
Set
Pro
Unless
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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.
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Sports
Framework
Mental Health
Roof
Thinking
Accident
Oh
Mental
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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 tough.
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Football
Nfl
Player
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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.
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Opportunity
Sports
Active
Athlete
Bottom
Bottom Line
Careers
Marketing
As Much Money
Athletes
Investments
Opportunities
Safer
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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 reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.
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Mom
Reality
Team
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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.
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Football
Games
Regret
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