Dick Butkus 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 were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.