Top 50 Brian Urlacher Quotes

Chicago Bears tradition speaks for itself.

Two of the people I don’t care about: fans or media.

It’s just dumb that people think that. ‘Why did you help that guy up after you tackled him?’ Because I wanted to. What’s the big deal? ‘Butkus would have never done that.’ Well, I’m not Dick Butkus. I’m Brian Urlacher, and sometimes I help people up.

There’s risk in everything that you do. It’s up to you to measure those risks and do what you want to do.

You know, the Bears know I want to be here. I’ve said it publically and that’s not going to change.

I’m hyper, goofy. I always have to be moving, doing something.

I can deal with the criticism of myself. I get mad when people talk about my teammates.

Marshawn, he’s hard to tackle. I only played against him a couple of times. We did OK against him in Chicago when I was there.

I’ve gotten a hundred pictures of guys making fun of me.

I did wonder what it would be like if I could have hair.

I really like United States so I pay attention to what goes on here. I don’t really pay attention to what goes on overseas or in other countries, unless it affects us, then I’ll pay attention.

People like to have fun, and what better way to have fun than go to a football or baseball or basketball game in Vegas?

It’s nice of guys to actually want to even pick my brain a little bit.

We’re defenseless, I know we play defense, but we’re defenseless when we’re not looking at the guy who’s blocking us or when the guy’s come out and cut out our knees from underneath us.

I wasn’t the greatest technician when I played.

It’s a great honor to be associated with the Hall of Fame and now to be in it. It’s awesome.

There are no hard feelings between me and the Bears’ organization. I had a great run here.

Jay Cutler is a first-round pick, had a great arm, etc. It’s just – he’s offense, I’m defense. We didn’t get a chance to interact as much as we should have, maybe.

Every moment, every practice, every game, everywhere; I just love competing. Competition is in my DNA.

I never would have thought, during my playing days, that there would be a team in Las Vegas.

My mom is my heart.

When the ball is snapped I want to tackle the other guy, the other team is my enemy.

There could probably be a penalty called on every single play. So the refs have a tough job.

The treadmill and the damn elliptical – they get so boring to me.

Fantasy football brought a ton more people to the game.

When you change defenses, it’s the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.

My whole career, I was pretty much bald. So, people just got to know me as being a bald guy.

I don’t think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn’t, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

I’m always going to be a Bears fan. Nothing’s going to change there.

I love the Bears.

It doesn’t change the way we play, I’ll tell you that much. If we hit a guy and get fined, we get fined.

If your quarterback can’t make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he’s not getting the job done.

I wouldn’t want to be a DB in the NFL. They’ve got no chance. There’s no contact down the field, but fans want to see points.

I was a huge Brett Favre fan, because how could you not like him as a kid playing football? Then getting a chance to play against him was pretty damn cool.

A knee injury could put you out for a season. A concussion, you may miss a game or two. Huge difference.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico – Lovington, New Mexico – I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

In Arizona, there’s mountains behind my house.

People realize that when you win, you obviously have some good players on your team.

Coach Marinelli’s defense is incredible.

I’m uncomfortable doing commercials.

Someone’s always saying something about me.

Technique wasn’t my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

I played defense, so I don’t like when guys celebrate with dances and stuff.

When the play is over, it’s over.

There’s no doubt in my mind I’ll finish my career with the Bears. However that works out, it works out. I can’t imagine playing anywhere else.

When I started playing the game I was just worried about making that next tackle. Especially as a rookie, you’re figuring out what you’re doing and where you’re supposed to be going, what the defense is, and trying not to make mistake.

You know who I like the way he celebrates is Peyton. He kind of gives the guy a handshake and goes back to the sidelines. I think that’s a great celebration right there.

I’ll always be a Chicago Bear no matter where I end up or where I retire, whatever happens.

I played for Marinelli I think my last four, five years in Chicago. He’s awesome.