Author Profile
Gale Sayers
1943 • American • Athlete
26
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 26 quotesThis is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.— Gale Sayers
My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.— Gale Sayers
We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that's all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.— Gale Sayers
You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.— Gale Sayers
You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.— Gale Sayers
You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.— Gale Sayers
What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.— Gale Sayers
I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.— Gale Sayers
There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.— Gale Sayers
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
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