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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

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
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
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
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
The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Hard Myself Racial Thinking Touch Understand
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
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

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

Feeling Start Yourself
I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn’t want any teacher to put me down any more.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Mom Myself People Reason Start Teacher
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
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Ability God Myself Stick Talent
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
HERSCHEL WALKER

God Ourselves Religious
One thing I’ve done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I’ve got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I’m debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Debate Invitation Life Oneself Team Training
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
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

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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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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