Athlete Quotes

Pittsburgh was a great team. Coach Noll, Joe Greene, Jack Lambert, L.C. Greenwood and all those guys did a great job. That's the team that kept us from winning two Super Bowls. It was a great rivalry.

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.

It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.

I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

I miss the guys. I don't get to see them often. We do get together in Houston now and then.

I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.

I did some good things as a rookie.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

Coming up as a kid, I played middle linebacker and I was very bow-legged, and I wanted to be like the legendary Dick Butkus.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

I loved the opportunity to play for the Yankees, too.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

You have to have a lot of little boy in you to play baseball for a living.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

I had a real good thing going for me, and I got sidetracked. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be drugs. It doesn't have to be alcohol. That part of my life is over.