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I don’t dream football. I dream the American Dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

Barry Sanders

It’s probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you’re driving too slow. It’s not the most pleasant thing.
BARRY SANDERS

Cities Country Football
One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.
BARRY SANDERS

Challenges Lines Sometimes
I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
BARRY SANDERS

Fan Football Media Meet Thank Wonderful
I’m from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that’s for sure.
BARRY SANDERS

Field Kansas Lot Running Street Taken
I don’t know the right way to retire.
BARRY SANDERS

Retiring Right Way
I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
BARRY SANDERS

Games Sports Winning
Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
BARRY SANDERS

Football Good Important Laundry Rule
I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.
BARRY SANDERS

Running Steam Time
In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that’s never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
BARRY SANDERS

Motivation People Rushing
It’s hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
BARRY SANDERS

Amount Put Team Together Winning
I don’t dream football. I dream the American Dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
BARRY SANDERS

Dream Father Football
Life doesn’t stop with football.
BARRY SANDERS

Football Game Goal Stop
I’m a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.
BARRY SANDERS

Boys Strong World
My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.
BARRY SANDERS

Christian Discipline Mother
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
BARRY SANDERS

Football Kids Vacant
I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that’s when things changed as far as going to the NFL.
BARRY SANDERS

Couple Exception Game Years

I don’t dream football. I dream the American Dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

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