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

Herschel Walker

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
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
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

Change Enough Myself Teacher Transformation
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Growth Key Knowledge Myself Small Thinking
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
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Believe Better Known Oneself Racial Tension
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
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 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

Live Myself Protein Work Worry
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HERSCHEL WALKER

God Ourselves Religious
If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Country Supply Wings
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

Debate Invitation Life Oneself Team Training
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Hard Training Yourself

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