Gale Sayers Quotes

• The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.

  Gale Sayers

  Firsts, Lord, Thirds

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Football, Determination

  Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Men, Games, Care

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

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Trends

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Nfl, 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.

  Gale Sayers

  Hero, Athlete, Fighting

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Football, Hard Work, Ability

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

  Gale Sayers

  Moving Up, Pages Turning, Nfl

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• When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.

  Gale Sayers

  Sports, Nfl, Fields

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Leadership, Sports, Thinking

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

  Gale Sayers

  Careers

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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.

  Gale Sayers

  Player, People, Guy

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

  Gale Sayers

  Thinking, Years, Games

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• Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

  Gale Sayers

  Thinking, Littles, Fine

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