Football Quotes by Gale Sayers

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can…

— Gale Sayers

I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could…

— Gale Sayers

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

— Gale Sayers

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

— Gale Sayers

There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

— Gale Sayers

Football is a very short-term proposition. Football really prepares you for nothing. The only thing I got out of football was the ability to…

— Gale Sayers

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

— Gale Sayers

This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.

— Gale Sayers

What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were…

— Gale Sayers

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I…

— Gale Sayers

We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that's…

— Gale Sayers

I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.

— Gale Sayers

People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.

— Gale Sayers

Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the…

— Gale Sayers

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

— Gale Sayers