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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.

Herschel Walker

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 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
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 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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Change Enough Myself Teacher Transformation
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.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Different God Happiness Help Love Myself Success
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
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
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
MMA is my love.
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Love One Liner
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Hard Training Yourself
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.
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Ability God Myself Stick Talent
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 was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Bully Children Fat Myself Past Pick Speech
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
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Action Believe Born Direction God Influence
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.
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Debate Invitation Life Oneself Team Training
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
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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God Ourselves Religious
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
I wouldn’t change anything about my past, because it’s made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.
HERSCHEL WALKER

Change Myself Past Remember
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 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
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
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
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
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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Different Money Myself Success

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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