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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.

Herschel Walker

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
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

Early Family Growth Myself Parents Time
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It’s simple, but it’s true, and your age is just an excuse.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Achievement Age Dedication Excuse Yourself
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

Knock Myself Stand Time
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
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

Change Myself Past Remember
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
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 was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel’s Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Determination Industry Myself Player Tough
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Action Believe Born Direction God Influence
God, my parents, my wife. I don’t have a lot of friends, because I’m always moving around. I don’t drink, so I don’t hang out in bars. But they’ve been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Encouragement Move Myself Parents Wife
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
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 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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Mom Myself People Reason Start Teacher
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

Big Day Difficult Dream Oneself Small
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HERSCHEL WALKER

God Ourselves Religious

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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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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