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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.

Herschel Walker

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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Athletics Development Myself People Small Thinking
MMA is my love.
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Love One Liner
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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Believe Better Known Oneself Racial Tension
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.
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Confidence Life Myself School Speech
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.
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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.
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Actor Dreams Player Professional Small
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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Achievement Age Dedication Excuse Yourself
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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Criticism People Prove Walk Yourself
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel’s Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
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Determination Industry Myself Player Tough
If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.
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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.
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Growth Key Knowledge Myself Small Thinking
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
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Different God Happiness Help Love Myself Success
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.
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Life Ourselves Responsibility Understand Work
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.
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Himself Life Live Person Society
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.
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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.
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Big Day Difficult Dream Oneself Small

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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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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