Herschel Walker
Herschel Walker
Herschel Walkeris a retired professional football player and a former college football player, bobsledder, sprinter and mixed martial artist. He played college football for the University of Georgia, earned consensus All-American honors three times and won the 1982 Heisman Trophy. Walker began his professional football career with the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, before joining the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. In the NFL, he also played for the Minnesota Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth3 March 1962
CityWrightsville, GA
CountryUnited States of America
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.
God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.
I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.
I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.
I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.
When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.
Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.
Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.
One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida.
If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.