Red Grange famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every football player knows when his time is up.
-- Red Grange

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I played football the only way I knew. If you have the football and 11 guys are after you - if you're smart - you'll run. It was no big deal.
-- Red Grange

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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.
-- Red Grange

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The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.
-- Red Grange

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No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it.
-- Red Grange

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A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.
-- Red Grange

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Everybody is entitled to believe. Churches have exactly the same right to exist as a football club, a trade union or a political party. But if you and I set up the Church of the Fairies of the Garden, then I don't think we should automatically be meeting the queen, be entitled to seats in the House of Lords or get public money for our fairy schools.
He said something was unique: I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do, and see if the officials take air out of it,
I run angry. Football allows me to take out some of my pain on the field.
I'm not a good guitar player.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
You have to feel you're the best at what you do. You don't have to come out and say it. But you have to know it within yourself.
If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.
I loved the game. We played because we loved it.
But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.
He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

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