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That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown!
-Anon.
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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.
-Paul Brown
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A winner never whines.
-Paul Brown
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First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.
-Paul William "Bear" Bryant
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-Dick Butkus
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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.
-Dick Butkus
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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.
-Dick Butkus
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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!
-Dick Butkus
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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.
-Dick Butkus
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I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important
-Dick Butkus
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When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
-Duffy Daugherty
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
-Duffy Daugherty
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People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
-Don Delillo
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Yeah, maybe if we make that extra point we go into overtime ... But if I make that last throw, that's what Brett Favre is all about. ... When called upon, I expect to make those plays. So, yeah, I feel like I let this team down.
-Brett Favre
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I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.
-Brett Favre
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I'd write over and over, I will not throw into coverage.
-Brett Favre
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There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
-Brett Favre
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I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as anyone else.
-Brett Favre
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We're always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I'm aggressive. I'll take shots, I'll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes.
-Brett Favre
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You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.
-Brett Favre
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With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.
-Brett Favre
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I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.
-Brett Favre
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It's the hand we're dealt. We've put ourselves in this position, and we've got to find a way to get out of it.
-Brett Favre
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
-Frank Gifford
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