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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

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

Different God Happiness Help Love Myself Success
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Hard Training Yourself
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 Life Myself School Speech
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

Athletics Development Myself People Small Thinking
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.
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Big Day Difficult Dream Oneself Small
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Bully Children Fat Myself Past Pick Speech
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

Life Ourselves Responsibility Understand Work
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

Hard Myself Racial Thinking Touch Understand
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Athlete Children Greatness Myself Start
All these older kids here, and I’m the only one from a town that’s so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you’d run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Breathe Kid Old Oneself Oxygen Small
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Eat Love Need Oneself Work
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

Inspirational Myself Reading Religious
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Action Believe Born Direction God Influence
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Athlete Development Feeling Goodness Growth Myself Start Word
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

Criticism People Prove Walk Yourself
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

Age Athlete Myself Planning World

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.

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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.

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