“I remember one season in Detroit, we all took a lot of vitamins. I don't think we played any better, but three of our wives got pregnant.”

—  Bob Ferry

"They Hunger for Success" https://www.si.com/vault/1977/02/28/560840/they-hunger-for-success by J.D. Reed, Sports Illustrated (February 28, 1977).

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