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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

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

Feeling Start Yourself
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don’t dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Actor Dreams Player Professional Small
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Himself Life Live Person Society
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
MMA is my love.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Love One Liner
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
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
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
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 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
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
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HERSCHEL WALKER

God Ourselves Religious
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 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

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