Utterings By & About the "Great One"

"If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler."
-- Jack Lambert --


"Yes, I get satisfaction out of hitting a guy and seeing him lie there a while."
-- Jack Lambert --


"Jack Lambert IS the Pittsburgh Steelers."
-- Former Browns coach Sam Rutigliano --


"I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest. If you can't take it, you shouldn't play"
-- Jack Lambert --


"Off all the middle linebackers - Ray Nitschke, Willie Lanier, Dick Butkus - what set Jack apart was his ability to play the pass."
-- Jack Ham --


"Jack didn't need to psyche himself to play... He LIVED to play."
-- Joe Greene --


"[Jack Lambert] was the most complete middle linebacker ever to play."
-- Jack Ham --


"He's so mean he hates himself."
-- J.T. Thomas --


"I don't care for the man. He makes more money than I do, and he don't have no teeth. He's Dracula."
-- Dallas LB Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson --


"Lambert may have had the image of a wild man. But he killed you with his precision."
-- Andy Russell --



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