Herschel Walker Quotes

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
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
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
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 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
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
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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Inspirational Myself Reading Religious
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
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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Knock Myself Stand Time
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
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.
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Ability God Myself Stick Talent
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 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.
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Change Myself Past Remember
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
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
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 train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
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Hard Training Yourself
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 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
MMA is my love.
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Love One Liner
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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Eat Love Need Oneself Work
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 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
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
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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Athlete Children Greatness Myself Start
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.
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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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Different Money Myself Success

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