Eric Dickerson Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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. — Eric Dickerson

I hated the goggles, don't get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet. — Eric Dickerson

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

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better. — Eric Dickerson

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

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

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

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads. — Eric Dickerson

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

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

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

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired. — Eric Dickerson

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. — Eric Dickerson

When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank. — Eric Dickerson

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

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. — Eric Dickerson

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

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

I don't give players a chance to hit me. — Eric Dickerson

When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better. — Eric Dickerson

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. — Eric Dickerson

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

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. — Eric Dickerson

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself. — Eric Dickerson

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