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Merlin Olsen

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Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.


— Merlin Olsen


#exciting #make #me #most #pro

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


— Merlin Olsen


#basketball #cared #could #crowd #draw

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.


— Merlin Olsen


#bear #book #bryant #coach #day

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.


— Merlin Olsen


#best #defensive #intimidate #line #maybe

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


— Merlin Olsen


#doctors #field #jobs #keep #team

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.


— Merlin Olsen


#back #basketball #because #coach #cut

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


— Merlin Olsen


#man #part #some #world

You are the land. The land is you.


— Merlin Olsen


#you






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12 ("The Good Doctor") the main character Alex tells Mark Gordon (Victor French) that "All I could see was the flowers and the beard. Each year Olsen presented the "trophy" in the ceremony at the rivalry game. As an actor he portrayed the farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie.

As an actor he portrayed the farmer Jonathan Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. He played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was selected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons a current record shared with Bruce Matthews. Merlin Jay Olsen (September 15 1940 – March 11 2010) was an American football player in the National Football League NFL commentator and actor.

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