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 WALKERThat 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.
More Herschel Walker Quotes
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When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.
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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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As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
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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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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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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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My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
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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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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 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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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.
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MMA is my love.
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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.
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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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If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
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