George Halas

“Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them.”

“San Francisco has always been my favorite booing city. I don't mean the people boo louder or longer, but there is a very special intimacy. When they boo you, you know they mean you. Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo.”

“When they boo you, you know they mean you.”

“At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.”

“You can achieve only that which you will do.”

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

“Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.”

“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.”

“If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.”

“Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.”