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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.

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.
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Hard Myself Racial Thinking Touch Understand
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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Athletics Greatness Kind Myself
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.
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Accomplishment Age Message Myself
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
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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.
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Mom Myself People Reason Start Teacher
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
We have the DNA of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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God Ourselves Religious
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.
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Age Athlete Myself Planning World
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
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
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Bully Children Fat Myself Past Pick Speech
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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Athlete Development Feeling Goodness Growth Myself Start Word
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
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.
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Live Myself Protein Work Worry
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
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Ability God Myself Stick Talent
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
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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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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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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