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I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

~Art Donovan

Topics: Ax College College Football Football Grind Guys High High School How Lucky Many Never Play Played Pro Pro Football School

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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.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Always Clause Contract Dinner Eat Every Friday Get Going Had Hell Made Me Monday Morning Never Overweight People Player Said Tell Then Until Vegetables Weigh Well

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I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Dogs Eat Food Hot Hot Dogs Like Only Pizza Spam Vegetables

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

~Art Donovan

Topics: Bathtub Big Know Rises Sit Toilet Water You

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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.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Baltimore Boy Bronx Heaven Her Lady Must People Proud Treated Up Very Way Who

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I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Art Everyone Guess Just Kept Laughing Looked Never Started Stories Talking Telling Way

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

~Art Donovan

Topics: Cold Cut Like Met Never

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I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Absolute Basic Been Came Camp Coach Crow Drill First Gone Got Had Instructor July Marine Months Must Named Nothing Nuts Pacific Remember Spent Through Training Who Wwii You I Came

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Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Both Both Sides Century Come Eat Family Famine Had Ireland Lips Make Make Up Making Nothing Only Over Passes Potato Reason Same Sides Since Then Tried Up Vegetable 19Th Century

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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.

~Art Donovan

Topics: Anymore Died Football Life Moments Mother My Life Play Play Football Saddest Two Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: June 5th, 1924

Died: August 4th, 2013

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