Gale Sayers Quotes

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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