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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

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.

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

When you betray your own heart, you suffer for life. Always be true to your heart!

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.

You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I'm definitely a guy that's done a lot of stupid s--- too. It happens.

Is life a boon? If so, it must befall That Death, whene'er he call, Must call too soon.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.