Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Gale Sayers

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Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Gale Eugene Sayers was an American professional football player who was both a halfback and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). In a relatively brief but highly productive NFL career, Sayers spent seven seasons with the Chicago Bears from 1965 to 1971, though multiple injuries effectively limited him to five seasons of play. He was known for his elusiveness and agility and was regarded by his peers as one of the most difficult players to tackle.

American - Athlete | Born: May 30, 1943

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

Gale Sayers

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

This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.

Gale Sayers

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

Gale Sayers

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

Gale Sayers

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

Gale Sayers

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

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

We had no preconceived ideas. We were on this football team to go out and win ballgames and try to win a championship, that's all. To Brian and me, it was no big deal.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

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

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

Gale Sayers

You have to prepare to quit, and this is what I did. I prepared to quit, so on the day that came when I had to walk away from the game, I walked away and didn't look back.

Gale Sayers

My knee was torn up. I tore every ligament in my knee. It was a very, very bad injury. I had to do what the doctors told me to do, and I did that. The next year, I came back and led the league in rushing.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

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

I ran back punt returns and kickoff returns, and I played a pretty good game.

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

You must prepare to quit, and they should start doing that from day one because the average life of a pro-football player is only three and a half years. It's not five. It's not seven. It's not 10.

Gale Sayers

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

Gale Sayers

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

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

Gale Sayers

Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.

Gale Sayers

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.

Gale Sayers

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

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

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

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

Gale Sayers

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

Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Gale Sayers

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