Make sure when anyone tackles you he remembers how much it hurts.
I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
When you have a problem, rules don't solve your problem. It's caring and education.
I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.
If you truly believe something, and it's incorrect, that doesn't mean you don't have integrity.
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.
I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.
I loved the game. We played because we loved it.
I had a choice to be lazy or lean - if I hadn't changed, thing probably would catch up with me.
I'm not pro-owner or pro-player. I am pro-football. I want the game to go on. I want the game to be tough. I don't want the game to be a killer of our players.
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
