Quotes by Red Grange

About Red Grange:

Harold Edward was a college and professional American football halfback for the University of Illinois, the Chicago Bears, and for the short-lived New York Yankees. His signing with the Bears helped legitimize the National Football League. He was a charter member of both the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1924, Grange became the first recipient of the Chicago Tribune Silver Football award denoting the Big Ten's MVP. In 2008, he was named the best college football player of all time by ESPN, and in 2011, he was named the Greatest Big Ten Icon by the Big Ten Network.
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No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

Red Grange

A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.

Red Grange

Every football player knows when his time is up.

Red Grange

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

Red Grange

I haven't seen a new football play since I was in high school. You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there's only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years.

Red Grange

Author Bio

  • NameRed Grange
  • DescriptionAmerican football player
  • BornJune 13, 1903
  • DiedJanuary 28, 1991
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Gridiron Football Player