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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 and 95, and they never worried about protein. They just enjoyed life, and that's what I'm doing.

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Love, Doing, Away, Lord Jesus

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

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Small, Reach, Big, Clothing

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

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Simple, Achieve, Your, Dedicate

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

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Big, Other, Very, Senior Year

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

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Small, Big, Town, Biggest Dream

I don't worry about protein. I don't worry about all that. I'm from old school. I grew up in south Georgia. They didn't worry about cholesterol or protein. They went out and worked and lived a long time, so I don't put a lot of worries in my mind.

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Long, About, South, Old School

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

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Christian, Born-Again, Directly

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

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Shake, Downs, Standing Up, Ups

If you eat a chicken wing or a chicken tender in some parts of the country, I probably supplied it.

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Country, Some, Tender, Wing

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

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Small, Doing, I Think, Business World

All these older kids here, and I'm the only one from a town that's so small, if everyone breathed at the same time, you'd run out of oxygen. Man, there is nothing there.

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Small, Run, Here, Oxygen

One thing I've done in my life is train year-round to compete at anything, anything. I've got an invitation now to maybe be on the karate team for the Barcelona Olympics. I'm debating whether I want to do that. I just love to compete, and I want to win.

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Love, My Life, Compete, Train

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

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Beat, Hard, Only, Train

I always said I wanted to be a great athlete, ever since I was an overweight little kid. I just love competing in any kind of athletics.

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Love, Always, Competing, Athletics

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 know who God is, and I love God.

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Love, Happy, I Think, Different Things

Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.

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Deal, Side, Larger, Push

MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well.

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Some, MMA, Still, Fighters

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.

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Play, Rules, Hall, Excuses

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. Now I sit down and tell people who I was. Now, I say, 'Do you know who I am?'

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Not Good Enough, Had, Became, Do You Know

I wouldn't change anything about my past, because it's made me who I am today. You have to remember: You need to crack some eggs to make omelettes. And I did crack some eggs.

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Need, Eggs, Some, Crack

I told somebody once, 'You don't want the Herschel that plays football... babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.'

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Your Child, Competing, Plays, Babysitting

I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.

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MMA, Very, Almost, Credit

I want to prove to people who sit on a couch and don't do anything but criticize other people that, if you're a true athlete or martial artist, you're not old until you can't get up and walk around anymore.

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Artist, Prove, Other, Martial

My message is, you can accomplish anything, not just on the athletic field, if you're willing to work pay the price. It doesn't matter what your age.

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Work, Pay, Willing, Athletic

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

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Mom, Reason, Necks, Picking

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

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Confidence, My Life, Here, Overweight

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

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Kid, Used, Little Kid, Impediment

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

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Myself, Start, About, Happening

Growing up, I started developing confidence in what I felt. My parents helped me to believe in myself. I wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't the best athlete in the world, but they made me feel good about myself.

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Feel, Developing, About, Helped

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 been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

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My Life, Big, Very, Helped

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