22 Quotes by John Mara

On behalf of my mother, my brothers and sisters and the entire Mara family, I would like to genuinely thank everyone for your kind words about my father and for your expressions of support for all of us. Your feelings for him during this difficult period have provided the strength to sustain our entire family. We are all devoted to continue the lessons he taught us: honor, humility and loyalty to all Giants fans that he loved so much.

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 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.

The Giants organization is very happy for Harry. I know he's been frustrated over the last few years, as have all of us when he wasn't voted in. But now he takes his rightful place in the Hall of Fame.