Jerry Kramer Quotes

#1. Old #64 chose ... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

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#2. We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

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#3. College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

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#4. Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

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#5. To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

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#6. When the game is over it is really just beginning.

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#7. It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

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#8. Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

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#9. My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

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#10. There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.

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#11. The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

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#12. In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

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#13. Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

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#14. Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

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#15. Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

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