Herschel Walker Quotes

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Sports, Football

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• Strive to be the very best you can be. Run the race against yourself and not the guy in the other lane. The reason I say that is, as long as you give it 110% you are going to succeed. But as long as you're trying to beat the guy over there, you are worried about him; you're not worrying about how you've got to perform.

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  Running, Race, Long

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• I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy.

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  Running, Tired, Balls

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• If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

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  Commitment, Simple, Age

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• Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

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  Football, Play, Mind

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• When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

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  Feel Good, Being Positive, Looks

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• That person has to be accountable for himself. I think thats what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone elses life.

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  Sports, Thinking, Live For Today

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• SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.

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  Home, Sleep, Able

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• I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

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  Kids, Speech, Littles

  "Herschel Walker: 'Tell the World My Truth'" by Bob Woodruff, Jaime Hennessey and James Hill, abcnews.go.com. April 14, 2008.

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• I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

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  Life Is, Knocked Down, Shakes

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• Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

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  Success, Being Happy, Don't Give Up

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• When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

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  Football, Running, Athlete

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• As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

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  Christian, Believe, Action

  Herschel Walker, Gary Brozek, Jerry Mungadze, Charlene Maxfield (2009). “Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.

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  Sports, Thinking, Racism

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• I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.

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  Motivational, Giving Up, People

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• I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind. I just get it done.

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  School, Worry, Long

  "Nearing 50, Renaissance jock Herschel Walker breaks fitness rules" by Madison Park, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use and ballet is something I really respect.

  Herschel Walker

  Athlete, Thinking, Years

  "Mma Fighter Herschel Walker Talks About His Diet, Ballet, and the NFL Playoffs". Examiner.com, January 20, 2011.

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• My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.

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  Sports, Football, Training

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• We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Dna, Christ

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• I wish they would see the real person in me. One day, they will know I'm not here for the show. My mind do shine. My heart is so kind. But that they can not see because all they see is the outside of me. Who I am, what I do is only the reaction I get from you.

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  Real, Heart, Who I Am

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• Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

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  Senior, Sports, Believe

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• I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

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  Mom, Teacher, Hurt

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• Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

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  Matter, Dirt, Sides

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• Eat what you want to eat, but just be willing to pay the price. If you know you want to eat more cake or more cookies, be willing to work out a lil bit more. I think that's the problem people have is you want to eat bad, but yet you don't want to pay the price to work it off.

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  Thinking, Pay The Price, Cake

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• Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

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  Sports, Confidence, Growing Up

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