We're a big check mark on everybody's schedule. I told them it's just another challenge; let's go after it.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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