When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is. — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself. — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now. — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when… — Walter Payton Copy Share Image
