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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

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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Athletics Greatness Kind Myself
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
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
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Ability God Myself Stick Talent
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’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
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
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 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 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
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Feeling Start Yourself
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Hard Training Yourself
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
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Athlete Development Feeling Goodness Growth Myself Start Word
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
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

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.

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