Quotes by Gale Sayers - Page 1

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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Believe
Starting
Rookie
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Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.
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Ran
Line
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People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.
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Games
Thinking
Years
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The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
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Firsts
Lord
Thirds
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When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
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Sports
Fields
Nfl
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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Moving Up
Nfl
Pages Turning
Stand
Counted
Stand Up
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When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.
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Injury
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Closing
Nfl
School
Trends
Prisons
Schools
Trend
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I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
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Thrills
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I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.
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Ran
Pretty Good
Returns
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Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
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Fine
Littles
Quarterback
Thinking
Jay
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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Sports
Determination
Enough
Football
Matter
Bad
Learned
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This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.
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Good Friends
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There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
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Hall
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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 life.
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Men
Care
Don't Care
Games
Remembered
Winner
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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 all.
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Hero
Nfl
People
Saving
Heroes
Look People Young
Let Us
Young People
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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 heroes.
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Athlete
Fighting
Hero
Iraq
Men And Women
Models
Role Models
Sick
Men Women Fighting
Heroes
Athletes
Women Men True
Women Men Fighting
Hoax
Role
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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 bullet that ball 70 yards.
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League
Yards
Bullet
Ray
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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 without thinking about them.
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Leadership
Sports
Thinking
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I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.
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Brian
Hey
Life Is Short
Life Death Age
Proved
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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 hard, and that's it.
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Ability
Football
Hard Work
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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 all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.
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Big Deal
Brian
Championship
Football Team
No Big Deal
Preconceived
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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 make it, no question about it. You can make it.
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Hey
No Question
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You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.
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Prepare
Quit
Walked
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I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.
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Medical
Technology
Injury
Medical Technology
Months
Type
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You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.
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Life Must Day
Day One
Life Day Start
Half Years
Prepare
Quit
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My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.
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Doctors
Injury
League
Next
Next Year
Rushing
Torn
Did
Came
Led
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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 put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
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Fame
Guy
People
Player
Good People See
Voted
Hall
Jim
Lester
Million People
Pretty Good
Ray
Shell
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I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.
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Brian
Time God Death
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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Deceased
Reporters
Hall
Ray
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