Quotes from Walter Payton

We are stronger together than we are alone.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.

Growing up, we played sports nonstop. I mean every single day. As soon I got done with breakfast, I was ready to go.

What is poor? We had food. We dressed well. We didn't have a lot, but what we had fit, and it was always neat.

You have to take things one day at a time.

No matter what the game was or how much older and stronger the other kids were, we were taught to give it everything we had until it was over. Never give less than one hundred percent.

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.