If you can't endure pain, you can't play in the NFL.
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“If you can't endure pain, you can't play in the NFL.”
— Jerome Bettis · Endure
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✦ About the Author
✦ More by Jerome Bettis
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If you can't endure pain, you can't play in the NFL.
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You see it all the time in sports when aging stars hang on a little too long. I was an exception, so sure I was going to retire after Super Bowl XL that I told Art Rooney before the game it would be my finale, win or lose.
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The captain of the football team is different from the leader of the team. The captain is the face of the team.
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The biggest problems come in when you have talent and expectations but you don't work hard. That's a big disappointment.
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The biggest starting tailbacks were 230 or 240 pounds, and I was playing at 260. Now that I'm gone, people are classifying players as Jerome Bettis-like. Any time you can create a category, you've changed the game.
✦ More Endure Quotes
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
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We want to play as many games as we can. The goal is to prepare yourself to endure the whole season.
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A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make no mistake about it, endure.
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I can endure.
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You learn after losing quite a bit, year after year, that you have to continue to work hard, stay tough, and endure to the end before it's going to work out.