Confidence is a very fragile thing.
Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.
That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.
We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.
I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.
Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.
We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.
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.
My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
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!
My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.
I've always just loved to play football, even if it was street football, like razzle-dazzle.
I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.
I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.
I never had a desire to hurt anybody.
Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.
I did come up with the term "sack" to describe the devastation I was bringing on the poor, cringing quarterbacks in the NFL. "Sack the quarterback." That was nice. I thought it was lots better than saying, "Jones tackles the QB behind the line for another loss of yardage ..." It had a ring to it, and it caught on with the sports writers. But I tell you, doing it was a lot more fun than talking about it.
The Steelers drafted guys who were bigger, stronger and faster than me, but they never found one who could take my job away from me.
I want to keep winning, the hell with the record.
There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.
My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.
He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)
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