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" I'm just not a guy that loves to eat. I love to work and love to work out. I think I go against all the nutritionists who say you need to do this or need to do that, so I'm one of the oddballs. "

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" I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics. "

Herschel Walker

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Athlete

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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. "

" We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

Herschel Walker

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Fat

" P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment. "

Herschel Walker

Confidence

My Life

" 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

" 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. "

" My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Herschel Walker

Christian

Action

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Herschel Walker

Good

Look

" 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. "

" If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. "

" I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. "