A biography for Randall Cunninghamhasn’t been written yet.
“I wasn't a sliding type of guy. I was a guy who went head-first. Not just to get the extra yard, but to get my body in a position where I couldn't get hit hard.”
“When Cris Carter didn't get into the Hall of Fame, I was completely shocked. That blew my mind.”
“My mom and dad told me not to trust anybody, because people will hurt you.”
“I would like to talk to the parents of prospective players and show them that I am an ordained minister and a graduate of UNLV and that the school is a moral place where I would send my own children.”
“People would come up to me and say, 'No, this is not you. Randall Cunningham would not do this. He wouldn't be on the floor dirty and scraping a floor and carrying heavy things. He's a multimillionaire.' But that was not what God was doing in my life. He was allowing me to humble myself under his mighty hand.”
“I want people to see there is more to me than football.”
“I had always considered the prospect that my children one day would ask me if I had graduated from college.”
“The people have always been family to me here in Las Vegas. The people have always been very, very kind to me, and it's always felt like home.”
“African American quarterbacks can do it just as well as anybody else.”
“When I ran, I jumped, I leaped. Vick doesn't seem to do nearly as much of that. I was a high jumper in high school, so I did that kind of thing.”
“Could I have run the read-option? I think I possibly could have done it, but I would not have wanted to do it.”
“Hey, I'm not the typical blue-collar guy, but that doesn't mean I'm not a family man.”
“Let me be me.”
“With a lot of negative publicity, we have to start thinking positive. When you start thinking positive, you begin to encourage. That's when you get good results.”
“I did own the marble company, but I was just as equal as the guys picking up the buckets of mud and carrying the tile in. Most difficult thing I have ever done in my life.”
“I love working with kids. I believe in them.”
“The most difficult thing anyone can face is losing a child. You have to focus on God. There's no other way around it.”
“I'm like a military person. If my leader tells me to do something and I pray about it and if I know it's what God wants me to do, I'll do it.”
“I would not go play for Ray Rhodes.”
“I was a happy-go-luck, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young kid, who wanted to sign autographs for everybody as soon as I got in the league. I went out and just had fun.”