Mike Ditka
Mike Ditka
Michael Keller Ditkais a former American football player, coach, and television commentator. A member of both the College Football and Pro Football Hall of Fame, he was the 1961 UPI NFL Rookie of Year, a five-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time All-Pro tight end with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth18 October 1939
CityCarnegie, PA
Mike Ditka quotes about
stay-strong sacrifice pay-the-price
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
motivation winning people
People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
miami-dolphins salad noodles
Can't make chicken salad out of chicken noodle
weight stretching
I do some weights and I do a lot of stretching.
hurt guy remember
You remember what happened when Eddie Pipp got hurt? A guy named Lou Gehrig took over.
sports spiritual past
What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.
sweet mean littles
Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
hurt heart exercise
When I get my heart rate up, I get good exercise and I think it's good for a lot of things, plus it's not hurting my hips right now.
tough toughness
You have to be tough.
sports stress doctors
Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don't know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there's chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
sports drinking beer
I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also.
tolerate
In life, you get what you tolerate.
sports nfl mad
I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.
mean player numbers
I'm not a mean player. You'll notice I never pick on a player who has a number above 30.