Minnesota Vikings

•Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach, when asked, "Who are you happiest to see return to camp this fall?": "Me."

Without Paul Hornung, Green Bay finished half a game behind Chicago last year. Hornung has come back strong, and so have the Packers

•Norm Van Brocklin, Minnesota Vikings' coach, telling his rookies how to gain a place on the team: "Go out and knock down a veteran a few times. You're adults now."

BOXING—Middleweight JOSÉ GONZALEZ, a Puerto Rican living in New York, knocked out Florentino Fernandez, the 11-to-5 favorite, in the eighth of a scheduled 10-rounder in Madison Square Garden.

•Bill Pellington, Baltimore Colt middle linebacker, after he had been thrown out of a game for kicking a Minnesota Viking: "Just say I lost my poise."