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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

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
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
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
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
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 is my love.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Love One Liner
My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you’re willing to work pay the price. It doesn’t matter what your age.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Accomplishment Age Message Myself
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Action Believe Born Direction God Influence
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
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Feeling Start Yourself
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Ability God Myself Stick Talent
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
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
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
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
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

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