We were looking for a major football conference which also had a total package for everybody.

He was a leader on the football field, but he was also a leader in the community, getting the leadership and the fans to believe in his vision. He deserves a lot of the credit for getting us to where we are today.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self- determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers

You really don't throw a football with your arm, per se. You throw with your legs. You have to have good balance and a good base.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

There was no question he was one of the dominant football players of the era of the late 1920s and early '30s. We recognized this and, fortunately, the members of the Hall of Fame committee were kind enough to look at the material we put together. Every time I read it, I am proud of what my teammates have done. ... It has come to fruition.