Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.