"Night rider!" (AP Photo/Greg Trott)

"If you're so tough, put a jersey on!" (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

"If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same." (National Football League)

"If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be the monkey." (National Football League)

"I just grab me an armful of men, pick 'em over until I find the one with the ball, then I throw him down." (National Football League)

"A good defensive lineman has to be part buffalo and part ballet dancer." (National Football League)

"The ninth grade. I went from 5-9 to 6-8." (National Football League)

"I've been big ever since I was little." (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

"If I'm sleeping, how will I know what kind of good time somebody is having without me?" (AP Photo/Al Golub)

"We didn't have steroids. If I wanted to get pumped up, I drank a case of beer." (Pro Football Hall of Fame)

"I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it's just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag." (National Football League)

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"I never graduated college, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's." (National Football League)