52 Quotes by Eric Dickerson

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.

I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

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.

I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

I think I’m proudest of making my parents proud.

I don’t give players a chance to hit me.

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.

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.

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.