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Top 25 Eric Dickerson Quotes (2025 Update)

Eric Dickerson Quote: “I think I’m proudest of making my parents proud.”

1. “I think I’m proudest of making my parents proud.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.”

2. “I love being single. I can come and go as I please and stay out as late as I want to.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I don’t give players a chance to hit me.”

3. “I don’t give players a chance to hit me.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.”

7. “Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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!”

10. “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!”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.”

11. “I hated the goggles, don’t get me wrong, but I felt naked without them. Almost like playing without a helmet.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.”

12. “I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “When they have their hands on their knees, that’s when they’re tired.”

13. “When they have their hands on their knees, that’s when they’re tired.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I’d love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one – and stay healthy.”

18. “I’d love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one – and stay healthy.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.”

19. “I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “She told me I wasn’t playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.”

23. “She told me I wasn’t playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “Them sportswriters don’t even know how to put uniforms on, most of ’em.”

25. “Them sportswriters don’t even know how to put uniforms on, most of ’em.”

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Eric Dickerson Quote: “When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.”

26. “When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better.”

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