Gale Sayers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#School #Trends #Prison
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
-- Gale Sayers

#Athlete #Want #Matter
The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
-- Gale Sayers

#Firsts #Lord #Thirds
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
There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
-- Gale Sayers

#There Comes A Time
Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
-- Gale Sayers

#Thinking #Littles #Fine
I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
-- Gale Sayers

#Careers
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 #People #Needs
People think I played 10 years. I played 68 ball games.
-- Gale Sayers

#Thinking #Years #Games
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
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
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
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
-- Gale Sayers

#Sports #Fields #Steps
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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