Merlin Olsen Quotes

You are the land. The land is you.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

The basketball coach cut me within two days, so I was back in the pool. I was the first one in the wall after the first 25 yards, but the last one out because I didn’t have a flip turn.

Team doctors’ jobs those days were to keep you on the field.

Our whole philosophy was to intimidate the quarterback. We were able to do it. We were pioneers. People still recognize us as, maybe, the best defensive line of all time.

Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.