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People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids.
I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.
Well the frog men finally got Rosie.
I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start to eat.
I never met a cold cut I didn't like.
I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.
I was 17 pounds when I was born. My mother couldn't walk for three weeks.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer.
I went to college to play football, not to study it.
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.
The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.
I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.
