1. Gary Knafelc: “Coach Lombardi was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

2. Paul Hornung: “It was almost sickening how perfect he was.”

3. Jesse Whittenton: “He definitely wasn’t a sand bagger.”

4. Boyd Dowler: “It became easy if you understood what it was you were supposed to do.”

5. Pat Cochran: “Lombardi leaned over and kissed the coach instead of Marie.”

6. Bud Lea: “It was like going to war with the Fifth Armored Division.”

7. Olive Jordan Frey: “Coach Lombardi asked him for a cigarette.”

8. Jack Koeppler: “I never remember him consulting with anybody.”

9. Bart Starr: “I came to appreciate the bluntness.”

10. Ron Kramer: “He was commander-in-chief and you did what the hell he told you to do.”

11. Jim Taylor: “He was a very tough negotiator.”

12. Max McGee: “Well, he scared the hell out of me right off the bat.”

13. Vernon Biever: “You could feel his way of doing things.”

14. Willie Davis: “He never disappointed me.”

15. Peggy Kostelnik: “My gosh, the power of that man, that’s incredible.”

16. Lori Keck: “He would never admit it, but he liked that I talked back to him.”

17. Pat Peppler: “He broke down and cried like a baby.”

18. Ruth Pitts Litman: “Lombardi would not be able to discourage him very easily.”

19. Dave Robinson: “We couldn’t get a hair cut in Green Bay.”

20. Vicky Aldridge Nelson: “Totally a racial pioneer.”

21. Marv Fleming: “I remember one time the ‘N’ word was brought up.”

22. Ken Bowman: “I wasn’t the kind of guy he wanted to sit down and have a cup of coffee with.”

23. Carroll Dale: “Thank God for the opportunity of being in Green Bay.”

24. Don Chandler: “You could hear him all over that county up there just yelling at me.”

25. Chuck Lane: “I figured it was cheaper than a casket.”

26. Tom Brown: “I still was a baseball guy and I really loved baseball.”

27. Donny Anderson: “He put his arm around me and said, “Today, you became a man.”

28. Bob Jeter: “He offered me ten thousand more than what I was gonna ask for.”

29. Bob Long: “I’m the only guy to play actively in both places.”

30. Gerald “Dad” Braisher. Whenever you see the Green Bay Packer logo, the “G” on the helmet, you’re looking at Dad.