40 Quotes by Gale Sayers

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I know with my knee injury, I didn't have the type of medical technology we have today. If I could've had what we had now, I probably could've been back out in three months. I didn't have that.