Our responsibility in life is not to lie around an... -Herschel Walker

Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it.

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I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry....
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 ...
I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this guy who became obsessed to become good enough. N...
When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up....
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I k...
My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else....
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 bee...
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action....
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....
I just think I'm blessed. I love the Lord Jesus Christ. I have a great grandmother that passed away at 104 and two grandparents that passed away at 97...

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There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken Engl...
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?...
I grew up in Welwyn Garden City, and when you're a woman of colour in a predominantly white area, you become aware of prejudice from a young age....
In the digital age of 'overnight' success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked....
Some fighters had blinding speed and reflexes in their heyday but faded badly with age....
I prefer to look at a natural woman. A woman should be courageous to become older, not desperate to look younger than her age....
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections....
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for ...
Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked ins...
I came to America at such a young age, and I was so naive that I didn't realise what I was getting myself into; maybe that's why it worked out for me....