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THEY SAID IT
Edited by Martin Kane
February 01, 1971
?Alex Karras at the Super Bowl, appalled when Baltimore failed to go for a field goal in the first half, contemplating the situation after Nowatzke's second-half touchdown: "I wonder if they'll try for the extra point."
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February 01, 1971

They Said It

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? Alex Karras at the Super Bowl, appalled when Baltimore failed to go for a field goal in the first half, contemplating the situation after Nowatzke's second-half touchdown: "I wonder if they'll try for the extra point."

?Helenio Herrera, Italian soccer coach, reacting to an observation that his annual income ($240,000) is 10 times that of a government minister: "In modern society one earns what one is worth."

?Liz Brewer, blonde English beauty, on a report that she will marry Lord William Compton, younger son of the Marquess of Northampton: "We're only getting engaged if he learns to play Scrabble properly."

? Lew Alcindor, discussing two of his favorite opponents in Baltimore: " Wes Unseld is very physical, but that Gus Johnson could get a job as a hockey puck."

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