Gale Sayers quotes:

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

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

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