Jerry Kramer Quotations

We still made a lot of mental errors and mistakes we have to work on. There are a lot of little things we have to work on if we are going to beat the good ball teams. We are giving up to many outs. We have to tighten out defense up, there is no question about that.

Many things have been said about Coach, and he is not understood by those who quote him. The players understand. This is one beautiful man.

I was angry, I felt violated . I was angry for quite a while about it, and now I would just like to have it back. It's kind of like one of the kids been gone a long time and needs to come home now .

We will pay any price that we are instructed to. But the money has to come from somewhere.

Twenty-five years ago I was traveling from Chicago to New York on a United Airlines flight. Went to the bathroom, washed my hands, soapy water, the ring slipped off, put it on the sink .

There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.

The ring was gone . Captain gets on the PA system, pleads with whoever picked it up to give it back, the stewardess goes up and down telling people. Nobody comes forth with it .

The whole book experience was a look into another world, the world of Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer.

They booted the ball around a lot in that first inning but we did a lot of hitting in that first game as well. We did it in spurts.

I'm glad we turned it around from what we did last year. We got some nice pitching performances. Our pitchers did well today and we are hitting really well.

Inside the Locker Room is a private, inside look at Coach Lombardi and the men who played for him. The locker room was a very private place; you will hear tears, laughter, prayers and curses. That is the way it was, and my hope is that the listeners will feel that they were right there with us.

When the game is over, it is really just beginning.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.

Then to have your baby playing at the school you played at and having him play well is a special treat.

Old #64 chose... a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive, slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me. They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

Lombardi has to have the highest threshold of pain in the world - none of our injuries hurts him at all.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

Probably the best part of my life has been watching the kids play their games.

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.