Best 12 quotes of Gale Sayers on MyQuotes

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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