40 ordspråk av John Mara
John Mara
 'I'll tell you what you can expect,' he said at our kickoff luncheon just a few days later. 'You can expect anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your own children. You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man. And you could believe that his abiding ambitions were to pass on to his family the true richness of the inheritance he received from his father, the bookmaker: The knowledge and love and fear of God, and second, to give you a Super Bowl winner.' |
| 'I'll tell you what you can expect,' he said at our kickoff luncheon just a few days later. 'You can expect anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your own children. You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man. And you could believe that his abiding ambitions were to pass on to his family the true richness of the inheritance he received from his father, the bookmaker: The knowledge and love and fear of God, and second, to give you a Super Bowl winner.' |
| [Wellington T. Mara would have had none of it, according to his son.] I couldn't help but think he would have been so embarrassed by all this, ... He would have just shook his head and tried to hide somewhere. |
| a minor inconvenience. |
| At the time, we felt it was a clear-cut decision. You can't second-guess yourself. |
| But I do feel like we now have a binding agreement, and that the state is committed to going forward with us. |
| He never gave up his will to live. He tried so hard to get out of bed and walk. He fought to the very end, and he never complained. His faith never wavered. |
| He said he was very much in support of our project, but that he needed some time to familiarize himself with the details of the deal. |
| He was the finest man we've ever known or will ever hope to know, ... and he was our dad. |
| He was very reluctant at first, |
| He'll stay there as long as he's able to do it. |
| I don't believe this would have occurred without his involvement. He was there at all the critical times to push one side or another, including the sports authority. It's been a dream of his for quite some time. |
| I don't see why we would have to do that, ... We've been working on this for close to a year, and we've spent millions of dollars for a seating bowl and other concepts. We can't start over now. |
| I go down on the field for practice maybe once a week. And that's another place where I look over to the corner, the place where he liked to watch from, and expect to see him. |
| I was never 100 percent sure that we'd ever get over the hurdles, |
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