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

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

    Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”
  • We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

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

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

  • Born: May 30, 1943
  • Occupation: Football player