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" I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.' "
Herschel Walker
Want
Person
Football
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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. "
Herschel Walker
Rules
Football
Know
" 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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Never
You
Dirt
" 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. "
Herschel Walker
Work
Think
Problem
" I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore. "
Herschel Walker
People
You
Walk
" I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. "
Herschel Walker
Football
Professional
Dream
" 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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Run
Athlete
Want
" If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. "
Herschel Walker
Hard
Beat
Only
" MMA is my love. "
Herschel Walker
MMA
Love
" I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?' "
Herschel Walker
Good
I Am
Not Good Enough
" 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. "
Herschel Walker
Down
Life
Standing
" Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids. "
Herschel Walker
Morning
Father
Family
" I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs. "
Herschel Walker
Past
Remember
Today
" I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me. "
Herschel Walker
Bible
Stories
Short
" My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. "
Herschel Walker
Love
Good
Me
" MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well. "
Herschel Walker
Said
Age
Best
" My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else. "
Herschel Walker
Training
Talent
Stick
" 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. "
Herschel Walker
Understand
Think
Racism
" 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. "
Herschel Walker
Long
Mind
Time
" 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
Think
You
Early
" One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win. "
Herschel Walker
Team
My Life
Love
" I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house. "
Herschel Walker
Money
Car
Me
" That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's 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 else's life. "
Herschel Walker
Life
Yourself
Today
" When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up. "
Herschel Walker
Go
Good
Look
" If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it. "
Herschel Walker
Chicken
Country
Eat
" I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head. "
Herschel Walker
Think
You
Sports
" Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town. "
Herschel Walker
Ethics
Business
Good
" Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta. "
Herschel Walker
Small Town
Small
Dream
" As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action. "
Herschel Walker
Christian
Action
Me
" 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. "
Herschel Walker
Love
Happy
God
" Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it. "
Herschel Walker
Lie
Work
Responsibility