Earl Campbell

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I did some good things as a rookie.”

“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.”

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

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

“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?'.”

“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.”

“When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.”

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

“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.”

“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.”