George Halas

George Stanley Halas nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything", was an American player, coach, owner and pioneer in professional football and the iconic longtime leader of the NFL's Chicago Bears.

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• I have made it a team rule that my players behave as gentlemen and dress as gentlemen. I wanted to end the popular conception that professional athletes were a bunch of roughnecks.

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

• Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set.

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

• 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.