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It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.
Oct 1, 2025
I'm in pro football to win, to have the Raiders dominate, to have the Raiders global, and we're not going to be able to do that with a half-filled stadium.
At many a moment on many a day, I am convinced that pro football must be a game for madmen, and I must be one of them.
Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.
Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.
I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
A good back makes his own holes. Anybody can run where the holes are.
If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
There is a progression of understanding vis-à-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance --physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. . . Which is exactly the way it should be . . .
Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.
There was a long stint during my childhood after I gave up on being a pro football player - were talking sixth grade here - that I strongly considered a future writing and drawing comic books. I have been making stuff up ever since.
Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.
The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
I'd catch a punt naked, in the snow, in Buffalo, for a chance to play in the NFL.
Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
Boxing was on the one hand barbaric, unconscionable, out of place in modern society. But then, so are war, racism, poverty, and pro football. Men died boxing, yet there was nobility in defending oneself.
No pro football player should die of heatstroke, any more than cholera, in this day and age if the most basic attention is paid and precautions are taken.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
The principle is competing against yourself.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.
Terry Bradshaw couldn’t spell ‘cat’ if you spotted him the ‘C’ and the ‘A’.
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
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 spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
When you win, nothing hurts.
Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.