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Ocupation: Football player

Life: b. September 2, 1960

Birthday: September 2

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When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

Topics: Sports, Tired, Hands

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She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

Topics: Sports, Coaches

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

Topics: Running, Legs, Knees, Running Back

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

Topics: Ems, Uniforms

I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

Topics: Football, Fun, Taken

I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.

Topics: Golf, Talking, Years

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

Topics: Mother, Thinking, Aunt, Viola, Great Aunt

I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

source: - Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. August 17, 2007.

Topics: Golf, Play, Guy, New Mexico

In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

Topics: Mean, Cutting, Agreement

In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

source: - "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

Topics: Running, Years, Nfl, Life Expectancy, Running Back

The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Perfect, Perfect Fit, Expired

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

Topics: Mother, Athlete, Guy, Poor Family

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

Topics: Light, Worry, May

I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

Topics: Fun, Energy, Different, Practical Joke

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

Topics: Football, Thinking, Parent

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Topics: Football, Player, Giving

Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

Topics: Football, Running, Men, Running Hard

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

Topics: Football, Running, Believe, Tall

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

Topics: Football, Running, Watches

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

Topics: Football, Winning, Healthy, Hall Of Fame

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

Topics: Football, Thinking, Media, Callous

When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

Topics: Pads, Shoulders

I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

Topics: Being Single, Being Alone, Love Is, Singles, I Am Single

It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

Topics: Nfl, Want Something, Sitting

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

Topics: Football, Excellence, Doe

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

Topics: Running, Looks, Easy

Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.

Topics: Hands, Nfl, Care

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Topics: Sports, Pain, Taken

In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

source: - "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

Topics: Mean, Cutting, Agreement

I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.

Topics: Goggles, Naked, Hated

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