Halas Quotes

#1. George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

Mike Ditka

#2. He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)

Sid Luckman

#3. Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

Gale Sayers

#4. But if it comes down to next year, I'll be picketing outside of Halas Hall for a new deal, a new contract, because I'm not going anyplace.

Brandon Marshall

#5. From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

Red McCombs

#6. What makes a good coach? Complete dedication.

George Halas

#7. At least 80 percent of the success of the football team is determined by the fight and spirit that they put into their play.

George Halas

#8. One of the best things about life - a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only - is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

Sophia Amoruso

#9. That was how I looked at life sometimes, as a warm meal that was growing cold. I knew I had to eat, or else I would die, but I had lost my appetite.

Herman Koch

#10. Doreen is dissolving, Lenny Shepherd is dissolving, Frankie is dissolving, New York is dissolving, they are all dissolving away and none of them matter anymore.I don't know them. I have never known them and I am very pure.

Sylvia Plath

#11. 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.

George Halas

#12. It's not the length of the word; it's how well you use it!

Rachel Vincent

#13. Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

George Halas

#14. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.

Marilynn Halas

#15. I am living a simple life with a complicated mind and I have yet to find a state of mind where I feel safe with who I am, where I am, with what I do.

Charlotte Eriksson

#16. The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson

#17. If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

George Halas

#18. Nobody whoever gave their best ever regretted it.

George Halas

#19. Nobody who has ever given his best has regretted it.

George Halas

#20. When they boo you, you know they mean you.

George Halas

#21. Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.

Larissa Ione

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

George Halas

#23. You can achieve only that which you will do.

George Halas

#24. Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

Jeanette Winterson

#25. Fatuous words I don't trust you I trust silence
More than beauty more than anything
A festival of understanding

Frantisek Halas

#26. Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George Halas

#27. I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

Sarah Mlynowski

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

George Halas

#29. You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

George Halas