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• Effort without talent is a depressing situation....but talent without effort is a tragedy.

• He throws nickels around like manhole covers.
  • In reference to George Halas during a contract dispute in his playing days.

• If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.

• Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal; its the courage to continue that counts.

• "There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis!" – A reference to the Bears' blue collar background.
• "I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past."