Top 32 Eric Dickerson Quotes
#1. I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one ... and stay healthy.
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#2. Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.
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#3. When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.
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#4. Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.
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#5. The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
Nancy Pelosi
#6. Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.
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#8. Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, 'When are you gonna start running hard?' The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth ... Man, I love to run!
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#9. In everyone's life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don't have that line.
M.F. Moonzajer
#10. She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.
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#11. In the NFL they talk about 'contracts,' but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.
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#12. Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.
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#14. I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half.
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#15. It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.
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#16. I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.
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#17. I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.
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#18. My wife is always by far the best-dressed person anywhere we go. And remember, we are surrounded by rich people who can afford to buy £20,000 gowns.
Leon Max
#19. I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.
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#20. I hated the goggles, don't get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.
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#21. I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.
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#22. I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
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#23. We are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
Stephen Chbosky
#24. When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.
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#25. I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.
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#26. When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.
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#27. Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.
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#28. I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.
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#29. Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
William Hazlitt
#30. The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.
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#31. I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.
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#32. Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.
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