George Halas

Notable Quotes



Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

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

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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.

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Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

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

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When they boo you, you know they mean you.

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You can achieve only that which you will do.

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

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

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At last, the newspapers discovered the Bears. I kept writing articles about upcoming games, and by reading the papers, I learned editors like superlatives. I blush when I think how many times I wrote that the next game was going to be the most difficult of the season or how a new player was the fastest man in the West.

From George Halas

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