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 WALKERGrowing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn’t the best looking guy, I wasn’t the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
More Herschel Walker Quotes
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We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
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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.
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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
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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?’
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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.
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Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn’t the best looking guy, I wasn’t the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
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If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It’s simple, but it’s true, and your age is just an excuse.
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I was a little different. I still say I’m a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.
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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.
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As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
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