Gale Sayers Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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