Earl Campbell Quotes

I did some good things as a rookie.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?’.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.