“I
scored a lot of points but a lot of people forget that we only allowed something
like 40-some points
scored against us all year. And 21 of those points were scored by Yale in one
ball game.”
" We had a very good defensive football team. North Carolina only scored
once,
VMI scored twice, and I think that was it."
" The Pittsburgh Steelers drafted me number one. Of course, I knew about
the University of Pittsburgh, but I didn't know a thing about the Steelers. I
knew a little
bit about the Washington Redskins. We used to go up and see them play.”
" College football and the bowl games were the big thing."
" They (the Steelers) signed me for $5,000, because I was the number-one
draft
choice.”
" There's no reason for a ballplayer to hang back at any particular time,
particularly
when they're getting beat. That drives me up a wall!"
" Playing the single wing, I figured, particularly in 1946, that I played
about
three years of football in one year.”
" When I went to Detroit, I had a contract that was guaranteed for three
years. At the end of the three- year period, if I didn't play, I was guaranteed
one
year of coaching. Bo (McMillin) traded me to the Redskins, feeling that I might
want to exercise that contractual right, you see, as a coach.”
" I was on the field almost 60 minutes, and doing everything. But that's
what I was capable of doing, and that's probably one of the reasons I was able
to stay
in the league. But I did have a good head on my shoulders. You see, you play
as much with your brains as you do with your body."
“Probably we'd work out from one to three o'clock in the afternoon, and
it was just overcast all morning long."
-- Bill Dudley, talking about his days playing for the Pittsburg Steelers
“ There was not a whole lot of hoopla about it”
--“Bullet” Bill Dudley when asked
about being the Pittsburgh
Steelers
first round draft pick in 1942
"I was tremendously honored to make the All-American
team but I don't feel that I have to strain to live up to some mythical something.
Yesterday's
sports hero is a lot like yesterday's newspaper--you always know there's a
fresh one coming tomorrow."
-- Bill Dudley to sportswriter Lawrence Elliott in 1954
"Despite
his lack of breakaway speed, Bill was the most feared kickoff returner in the
game .... He passed sidearm, like a kid,
yet he had a fine
completion average. He was 'too small,' but he was hardly ever hurt too badly
to play. He was the league's top ground gainer, yet he was also one of the
fiercest defensive tacklers and the best in the game at interceptions. As one
of the men who faced him ruefully admitted, Bill could not throw a pass correctly
and 'ran as if he was staggering,' yet he could always find a way to beat you."
-- Robert Smith, writer for “Sport” magazine
"I've watched Heath Miller play several years at the university and I think he's a helluva football player. Good blocker. Good receiver. I follow the Steelers. I didn't follow the tight end last year too much but I do think Miller's a helluva football player personally."
-- "Bullet" Bill Dudley on 2004-05 Pittsburgh Steelers player Heath Miller
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