Quotes from Dick Butkus

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

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

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important - like a league game or something.

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.

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