29 Quotes by Art Donovan

I wouldn't want to go back over my life. I've done it all. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the Marine Corps. I wouldn't have wanted to miss the war. I wouldn't have missed college. Or playin' for the Colts. I got all the money I need. Five children. I got a truck. I have no regrets whatsoever.

You know you're big when you sit in the bathtub and the water in the toilet rises.

There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.

I never met a cold cut I didn't like.

Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.

People tell me if I don't eat vegetables, I'm going to get scurvy. Well, what the hell. But I was never overweight as a player. There was a clause in my contract that said I had to weigh in at 270 every Friday morning. I always made it. I'd have dinner on Monday, and then I wouldn't eat until Friday.

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.

I'm not like some guys who, if the Ravens lose, are ready to jump off the top of M&M Stadium. There are other things in life besides pro football.

I tell people Baltimore is lucky to be rid of the Colts, they're so lousy, but I don't mean it.