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Quotes by Bob Lilly

I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping me that way was my father. He went to every game even though he was crippled and wasn't real healthy.
– Bob Lilly
I go to the ballgames and I'm talking to the fans, and not the players. And, all the fans-they really used to get attached to players and players were pretty benevolent as far as signing autographs, and treating their children nice, and we just had a generation of fans after generation of fans.
– Bob Lilly
I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor.
– Bob Lilly
I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
– Bob Lilly
I would say that as a lineman, I patterned myself after Gino Marchetti.
– Bob Lilly
My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little town near where I grew up.
– Bob Lilly
Our Super Bowl VI that we won was the biggest game because it took a lot of pressure off. It was enormously satisfying because we won the game and it was a nucleus of players who had grown up together, always losing the big ones. Started out with nothing and we were still together, and it was really, really neat.
– Bob Lilly
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
– Bob Lilly
The game when we started the flex was 60 percent run, 40 percent pass. Today's game-although I do see it turning back towards trying to run more and equalize the run-pass situation. I think the game has changed so much that right now, you try to stop the pass and the runner's in the secondary.
– Bob Lilly
The hardest guy ever to contain was Fran Tarkenton. He was like a rabbit.
– Bob Lilly
Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.
– Bob Lilly
We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.
– Bob Lilly
We were always in contention-18 out of 19 years in the playoffs. And all that was because we had a pretty good offense, and we had that flex defense.
– Bob Lilly