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. Eric Dickerson More Quotes by Eric Dickerson More Quotes From Eric Dickerson I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud. Eric Dickerson nfl football thinking 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. Eric Dickerson excellence doe football 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! Eric Dickerson running football men 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. Eric Dickerson taken fun football When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better. Eric Dickerson 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. Eric Dickerson running football sports 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. Eric Dickerson light worry may 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. Eric Dickerson aunt mother thinking Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads. Eric Dickerson shoulders pads I love golf. But do you know how I got good at golf? Because of Charles Barkley. I was playing with Charles, Michael Jordan and Roy Green, and Charles was talking so much trash. On every shot, he was talking trash. So I left the tournament, and I went and practiced for a year and half. Eric Dickerson golf talking years 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. Eric Dickerson guy play golf 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 cutting agreement mean I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better. Eric Dickerson running football believe Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em. Eric Dickerson uniforms know-how ems Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything. Eric Dickerson knees legs running I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to. Eric Dickerson being-single being-alone love-is I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy. Eric Dickerson winning football sports 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. Eric Dickerson media football thinking I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet. Eric Dickerson goggles naked hated I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me. Eric Dickerson easy running looks
