Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
George Halas, fully George Stanley Halas, Sr., nicknamed "Papa Bear" and "Mr. Everything"
Professional Football Player, Coach, Owner and Pioneer in professional American Football, iconic longtime leader of the NFL's Chicago Bears, lesser known as an Inventor, Jurist, Producer, Philanthropist and Philatelist
"Always go to bed a winner."
"Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else. "
"You can achieve only that which you will do. "
"Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game. "
"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. "
"Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work."
"Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them."
"If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen."
"Music, that's what it is to me. One time in Kezar Stadium they gave me a standing boo."
"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."
"Taylor, we've run out of timeouts. Go in there and get hurt."
"When they boo you, you know they mean you."