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“It may sound corny to some guys but I still believe after all these years that the game isn't over until the last shot Is fired.”
“I have no animosity toward Al Davis or John Madden.”
“In fact, I'd like to play until I'm 60.”
“All of the great quarterbacks have been guys who couldn't run a lick - John Unitas, Joe Namath. Sonny Jurgensen - guys who stayed in the pocket.”
“I will play as long as I can help a team win.”
“The one record I was happy to get rid of was the one for the most interceptions, when Brett Favre got that one.”
“I never retired from any of my teams; I was fired.”
“I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.”
“I honestly played the best football of my life in Houston.”
“The game that I remember the most was playing against Cleveland in 1970. We were down 20-13 and I came in and we got a touchdown and then we got a field goal in the last three seconds.”
“If your body can take it, you can play forever if management wants you. But if you start missing field goals and losing games, then you are not long for the world.”
“I like beating old standardbearers of the N.F.L.”
“Favre is smarter than the coaches. Most of those coaches have never played pro football, and they're second-guessing him?”
“I've heard this stuff about a kicker 'losing his leg' ever since I was a rookie, and I can tell you that there is nothing to it. Every time a field goal kicker misses a few, the word gets around that he's lost his leg, meaning his kicking strength.”
“I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or '61. I just regret we didn't get the chance to prove it.”
“The owners need to have some protection against players jumping from team to team. The fans have the right to expect some continuity on the team they support from year to year.”
“I sat on the bench and then came in and made a pass or two.”
“I think a football career should be used as a stepping stone to something better - not as an end in Itself.”
“It's very sweet to win against people who let you go.”
“Certainly I cut up Halas every chance I get. He decided that I was through in 1959.”