Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I've felt sorry for young people who didn't have an opportunity to play football, because I know what the game can offer.

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.

Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.