Earl Campbell Quotes

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I’d always say, Mom, I’m in trouble. Well, Mom, I’m in trouble.

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• There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don’t know if it’s something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do.

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  Tags in Houston, Realization, Will

• There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication – and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.

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  Tags in Grips, Patients, Doctors

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn’t supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, ‘Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?’.

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  Tags in Hey, Saying, Things

• Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.

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  Tags in Counts, Will, Competition

• 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.

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  Tags in Winning, Super, Rivalry, Bowls, Coach

• 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.

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  Tags in Sells, Kinds, Pounds, Company

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

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  Tags in Houston, Bought, Pit, Cooking

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

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  Tags in Dance, Head-On, Running

• 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.

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  Tags in Student, Represent, University, Clean

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

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  Tags in Houston, Get, Together

• 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.

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  Tags in Block, Offensive, Lord

• 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.

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  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Runs, Wife

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

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  Tags in Foods, Company

• 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.

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  Tags in Stiff, Arm

• I did some good things as a rookie.

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  Tags in Rookie, Good, Things

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

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  Tags in Prepared

• 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.

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  Tags in Houston, Fans, Deserve

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Everything, Damn

• 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.

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  Tags in Smith, Things

Earl Campbell (22)

Birth:	29th March, 1955
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Football Player

About

Earl Christian Campbell was born in Tyler, Texas. He is a former professional American football running back. He, Paul Hornung, and O. J. Simpson are the only Heisman Trophy winners to have also been first overall National Football League draft picks and members of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and College Football Hall of Fame. He began playing football in fifth grade as a kicker, but moved to linebacker and then to running back in sixth grade.

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