Dick Butkus Football Quotations

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

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.

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.

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!

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

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.