Gale Sayers Quotes

15 quotes in 227 categories

• I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
• When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
• 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 work…
• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true…
• The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
• I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in…
• I have no idea what I did. I heard people talk about dead leg, shake, change of pace and all that, but I did things…
• People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.
• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us…
• I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
• Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
• There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they…
• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

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