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Walter Payton Quotes:

Walter Payton quotes

Ocupation: Football player

Life: July 25, 1954 - November 1, 1999

Birthday: July 25

Death: November 1

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Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.

source: - Walter Payton, Don Yaeger (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House

Topics: Running, Giving, Trying, Linebackers, Facets

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When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

Topics: Champion

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner... A winner is somebody who gave his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can...who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. It doesn't mean that they accomplished it or failed, it means they've given it their best. That's a winner.

source: - Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

Topics: Running, Mean, Effort, Strength Within

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Topics: Life, People, Tough Times

Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

Topics: Nfl, Important, May, If You Love Someone

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Topics: Sports, Guy, Want, Motivational Inspirational Sports, Football Player

I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.

Topics: Negative, Aspect, Mets

We are stronger together than we are alone.

Topics: Together, Stronger, Stronger Together

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything

Topics: Roots, Sight, Forget You

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

Topics: Nfl, Want, Winner

Children have always brought a tremendous amount of joy to me and I feel that if you can catch them at a young age you can really change a life. There are a lot of studies that show that one act of kindness to these children has a 40% chance of making that child have a completely different outcome in their life. What you hope is that you can get a kid to believe in something and to believe in themselves.

Topics: Kindness, Children, Believe

Work hard or don't work at all.

Topics: Hard Work, Effort

When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

Topics: Athlete, Kids, Role Models

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

Topics: Guy, Trying, Shots, Best Shot

I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.

Topics: Giving, Rose, People

I wanted to be a professional drummer.

Topics: Drummer, Wanted

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Topics: Football, Determination, School, Hard Work And Determination, Hardwork And Determination

You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?

Topics: Mistake, Fall, Athlete, One Mistake

God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.

Topics: Blessed, Very Good

Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

source: - Walter Payton, Don Yaeger (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, p.305, Random House

Topics: Nfl, Tomorrow, Remember

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

Topics: Tvs, Want, Want Me

I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.

Topics: Running, Worry, Dying

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

Topics: Athlete, People, Want

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

Topics: Might, Persons

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Topics: Running, Pushing, Push Yourself

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

Topics: Senior, Running, Cutting

Money isnt everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

Topics: Kids, Married

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

Topics: Football, Running, Years

Do anything that might make the world a better place for someone

source: - Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

Topics: World, Might, Better Place

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