NFL
player, television commentator, and coach. Ditka coached the Chicago Bears
for 11 years and New Orleans Saints
for three years. Ditka and Tom Flores
are the only two people to win Super Bowl
s as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka was the only individual to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' championships, as a player in 1963
and as head coach in 1985
.
Ditka was born as Michael Dyczko in the Pittsburgh-area town of Carnegie on October 18, 1939.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation....but talent without effort is a tragedy.
He throws nickels around like manhole covers.
If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
You're never a loser until you quit trying.
Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal; its the courage to continue that counts.
"There are teams that are fair-haired, and those that aren't so fair-haired. Some teams are named Smith, some Grabowski. We're Grabowskis!" – A reference to the Bears' blue collar background.
"I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past."