Jerome Bettis
Jerome Bettis
Jerome Abram Bettis Sr., nicknamed The Bus is a former American football halfback who played for the Los Angeles Rams/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Bettis is sixth on the list of NFL rushing yards leaders. He retired in 2006 after the Steelers won Super Bowl XL in his native Detroit, Michigan, beating the Seattle Seahawks, and he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2015...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth16 February 1972
CityDetroit, MI
thinking careers want
You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.
nice people fleeting
Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.
want sticks roles
It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.
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I'm disappointed in you Tom Brady
beyond guy played reason wise
He's the reason we're here. He's a young guy who is wise beyond his years, and he's played like it.
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He's the reason this football team has been able to be so consistent through the years. His philosophy and his makeup decide the makeup of this football team, so we're a physical bunch of guys, tough-minded, because he's a real reflection of that. He's been that way since the day I got here, and our teams have been reflective of that since the day I got here. I think he's been the driving force.
opportunity
He said, 'It's not over yet. We've got another opportunity and it's up to us to make it right.
believe city
I believe in this city and its future.
enjoying might people
I'm enjoying this. Most people might not like this, but I do.
carry goal looks needed ready though
I'm ready to go to work. That's what I do. I didn't come back to be able to carry it 50 times. My goal was to come back, and if I was going to come back, to be able to go if they needed me, and right now it looks as though they need me.
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In the playoffs, you play the best teams in your conference, so you're not going to be able to run the ball as well as you had during the regular season. People are missing out on that fact. It's not about just knocking your head against the wall. It's about winning the football game, so you do whatever you have to do to win.
buffalo willie
In the Buffalo game, Willie had one long run,
mind pressure
I really did not want to put pressure in his mind to do anything out of the ordinary.
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I guess they thought it was only fitting that on the road back to Detroit for everyone to wear Jerome's Notre Dame jersey.