Memorable Jerry Kramer Quotes
There's a great deal of love for one another on this club. Perhaps we're living in Camelot.
-Jerry Kramer, Dec 31, 1967.
"Many things have been said about Coach, and he is not understood by
those who quote him. The players understand. This is one beautiful man."
-Jerry Kramer, Dec 31, 1967.
"You didn't start to live until the day you met him, and I didn't either."
-Jerry Kramer to Marie Lombardi.
"In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself. I had just has a colostomy, the most awful experience in the world.
....Then I thought about [the children I had visited in hospitals] and ... I said, "You sonuvabitch what are you feeling sorry for yourself for?"
-Jerry Kramer, Farewell to Football, 1969
"Old #64 chose...a gentle jog, fast enough to prove I was alive,
slow enough to savor the cheers. They washed over me.
They warmed me. I knew I could live without them but I loved them."
- Jerry Kramer, on appearing at Lambeau Field in 1984 as part of a Super Bowl I tribute.
"I know that the fan's memory is not long, that my name will fade
quickly, that in a few years I will sink back into anynomity."
-Jerry Kramer, Farewell to Football, 1969
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Compilation (c) 1996 Keith Brewster. Items as noted.
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