Gale Sayers Quotes

#1. Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

Tom Scholz

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

Gale Sayers

#3. Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

Debasish Mridha

#4. 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.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

#6. 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

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

Gale Sayers

#8. Our minds, with their store of madness, had diverged. O gruesome life, ========== On the Road (Kerouac, Jack)

Anonymous

#9. Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

Gale Sayers

#10. The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.

Anne Lamott

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

Gale Sayers

#12. 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

#13. The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Mary Astell

#14. 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.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

#16. 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

#17. There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Ana Castillo

#18. I care what my reader thinks. There is no fancy recommendation you can give me that would matter to me as much as Mary Jane from Youngstown writing me a letter. There is not one. Don't need it, don't want it, don't require it, does not fill up my soul. It's about her, not about the rest of it.

Adriana Trigiani

#19. The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

Gabe Newell

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

Gale Sayers

#21. 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.

Gale Sayers

#22. Age has a way of sobering us. Our experiences, our disappointments, and our failures have a way of shrinking our expectations. Sometimes they wound us in a way that steals our faith and bankrupts our dreams.

Ross Parsley

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

Gale Sayers

#24. 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.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

#26. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

Brian Tracy

#27. There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.

Gale Sayers

#28. We are all equally rich when it comes to the currency of time: 24 hours in a day and not one iota more. It is one of life's most level playing fields, ever devised, from the standpoint of a singular day.

Garry Fitchett

#29. 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