Gale Sayers
Gale Sayers
Gale Eugene Sayers, nicknamed "The Kansas Comet", is a former professional American football player who was a running back in the National Football Leaguefor seven seasons for the Chicago Bears. He played college football for the University of Kansas and was twice recognized as an All-American. He was a first round pick in the 1965 NFL Draft and played his entire pro career for the Bears...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth30 May 1943
CityWichita, KS
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. These guys will ask their sons to come out here and get these autographs, and then they'll take them back and sell them in their stores, or they'll sell them to dealers. The bad thing about the whole thing is when an adult sees Gale Sayers turn away a kid and says, 'Well, Gale Sayers is a so-and-so because he wouldn't sign an autograph for a little kid.' But I know what he's doing.
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.