MIKE'S QUOTES:
"He shouldn't have been out on the field." Mike's response to critisizm about tackling a fan 1971
"That's just for show business. All those stories about how mean I am just aren't true. Some of them have been stirred up for show business. Show business is part of the game." Spokesman Review, Spokane, WA 1976
"Once I get involved in something I'm intense about it -- I pursue it, if my job is to make a play then that means I have to get there whether I go around blockers or smash them. I just try to get there to make the play."
"It's harder because it's more monotonous, I'm more interested in games now than doing agility drills. After 12 years of doing agility drills, they lose their appeal. I just wait for games."
"I tried for two years to get traded, I popped off enough, figuring they had to get rid of me."
"I like to blitz because I like to get to the quarterback." Team Media Guides"
I play football because it's the only place you can hit people and get away with it." Team Media Guides
"They cheer everything. If you recover your own fumble you might get a standing ovation. They're incredible but the test will be how they are in a few years. By then maybe those lumberjacks up there will be tossing logs at us from the stands." Washington Post 1976
"After the game your fingernails are clean." After Super Bowl V - Ersatz Turf
"Bubba Smith and his date came over to dinner recently. He ate everything-the meal, the table, the chairs, the plates, everything. I hardly had a bite or two of anything because of Bubba..." Keep Off My Turf 1971
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