Dick Butkus

“I want to just let the four horsemen of the apocalypse loose.”

“I was a linebacker. I'm not going to be a diplomat.”

“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.”

“My goal was to make the other guy not want to play against me again.”

“You can't be a Chicago Bear and not be tough.”

“We're going to hit you. We're going to hit you hard. And we're going to keep hitting you.”

“You have to have a little bit of a screw loose to play this game.”

“I was never the fastest or the quickest. I was just the most determined.”

“I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around telling everyone how great you are. Let your play do the talking.”

“I don't think I was a dirty player. I just played the game the way it was supposed to be played.”

“If I had to do it all over again, I'd have played every game with the same intensity.”

“My whole life, I've just been a football player. That's all I ever wanted to be.”