17 Quotes by Gladys Bettis

When we did that, I said I would never do that again.

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

She almost died. She had to wait until they came back to find out if he was OK. I couldn't go through that.

Personally, I would be happy if this was his last game. I want to see him go out on top.

I am so elated. It took this boy 13 years to make it back home. Those guys brought him home. He motivated those guys and they played for him to bring him back home.

But we kept following him, back and forth across the country, every game, every year. It was hard, but it was a routine we started and stuck with. The years, the miles - nothing separated the family.

He wanted us there, and as parents, it was something we always wanted to do. It took a lot of arranging, a lot of schedule-changing, and a lot of planning to make it all happen, but my husband and I felt like we should be there for Jerome. So we went to his games - all of his games.

My husband would get the hose out to make that rink every year -- it even had nice banks made of snow.

We donated it to a church and had it fixed up, but we don't know what happened to it. I didn't even know it caught on fire.