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.
At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.
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.
If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.
My thing is trying to convince them they can win.
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.
The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.
We had a tough loss that could have gone either way. It's been a hard camp for the kids and they deserve to get one win.
We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge, let's go after it.
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.
Has two sons and a daughter
Was a first-round draft pick of the Chicago Bears, where he spent nine years as a linebacker and appeared in eight straight Pro Bowls
Considered to be the meanest linebacker ever to play football.
Former football player with the Chicago Bears
Elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
Uniform number 51 retired by the Bears.
Is of Lithuanian descent.
Was frequently paired up with Bubba Smith in Miller Lite commercials. Also worked with Smith in the Blue Thunder TV series.
Since 1985 the Downtown Athletic Club of Orlando, Florida has presented the annual Dick Butkus Award to the top linebacker in college football.
Mentioned in the Sublime song "Same in the End".
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