Eric Dickerson Quotes

• It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

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  Nfl, Want Something, Sitting

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• I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.

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  Football, Thinking, Nfl

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• Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

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  Football, Excellence, Doe

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• Running is so natural to me. When I was running track, people used to ask me, "When are you gonna start running hard?" The wind hits me in the face, and I feel so smooth - Man, I love to run!

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  Football, Running, Men

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• Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

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  Ems, Uniforms, Know How

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• I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant. I didn't like the media attention.

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  Football, Thinking, Media

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• The perfect fit for L.A. would be the St. Louis Rams. I really believe that. I know their stadium deal is about expired, or it is expired. They're working through that. I think it would be the old Los Angeles Rams in town.

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  Creer, Pensar, Perfecto

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• In the NFL, you have a short shelf life. As a running back, if you're the first pick, and you're NFL life expectancy is only 3.5-6 years, your first big contract might not come until three years in - well, you might never get there. They need to get those signing bonuses up front because nothing is guaranteed.

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  Running, Years, Nfl

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I don't give players a chance to hit me.

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  Sports, Football, Player

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• I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and it definitely used to be fun. A lot of the fun has been taken away from it, I guess, because you go through so much on the field and off the field.

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  Football, Fun, Taken

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• When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.

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• I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.

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  Being Single, Being Alone, Love Is

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• When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

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  Sports, Tired, Hands

  "Eric Dickerson, Class of 1999". Pro Football Hall of Fame biography, www.profootballhof.com. January 01, 2005.

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• I'm just not the outgoing bubble of energy. But if I know you, it's different. Practical jokes. Have fun. I'm not looking for any new friends. I got my friends.

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  Fun, Energy, Different

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• I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

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  Running, Looks, Easy

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• Life isn't about a hand-out. That's not what the NFL is about and that won't get you in the NFL or take care of you once you're out of the NFL. You have to work.

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  Hands, Nfl, Care

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• I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

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  Running, Football, Believe

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• I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

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  Sports, Pain, Taken

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• I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.

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  Sports, Running, Football

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• Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

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  Light, Worry, May

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• I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was, I think, 15, 16. They tried to get her to have an abortion and she refused. So, my 'mama' adopted me, which was really her great aunt, which was really my great-great aunt, who was named Viola Dickerson. I was told that my mother was my sister.

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  Mother, Aunt, Thinking

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• In the NFL they talk about "contracts," but it's not really a contract, it's a one year agreement. If you have a 10 year contract, it means nothing. If you get cut in the NFL, you get nothing. People don't talk about that.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mean, Cutting, Agreement

  "Eric Dickerson Interview: Hall of Fame RB Talks Randy Moss, NFL in LA and Rams". Interview with Bear Heiser, bleacherreport.com. November 5, 2010.

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• I've stayed buddies with my old buddy Jackie Slater. I talk to Jackie Slater. I play golf with Marcus Allen a lot. I play golf with Marshall Faulk a lot. My buddy Craig Young, he lives up in New Mexico. I still talk to a lot of the guys.

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  Golf, Play, Guy

  Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.

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  Goggles, Naked, Hated

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• Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

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  Pads, Shoulders

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