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  • It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

    Daughter   Men   Scared  
    "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 7, 2013.
  • The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.

  • My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

  • Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

  • Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

    Giving   Inspire   Soul  
  • You always want to see the NFL try to protect the players.

    Football   Player   Nfl  
    "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. January 17, 2011.
  • Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.

    Kids   Mind   World  
  • To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

    Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books
  • I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

    "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett: Bleacher Report Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. JANUARY 17, 2011.
  • People need to pay attention to their bodies and go get a checkup. If you do that, you have a chance to help illnesses from getting even worse.

  • You can turn the negative around and use it as a motivating force in your lie. One of my biggest desires has always been to prove certain people wrong - to prove to them I can do it despite what they think or say.

    Lying   Thinking   People  
  • I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

    Growing Up   Dark   Night  
  • You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

    Football   Mistake   Nfl  
  • I'm me. I can't put on airs. I'm not a phony. I know the way I am hurts me more times than it helps. But somehow it's all tied up with my integrity, and my integrity is the last thing I'm going to let you take from me.

    Hurt   Integrity   Air  
  • All a lot of women see are dollar signs.

    Dollars  
  • No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school.

  • I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

  • Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

  • Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

    Mistake   Made   Worst  
    Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books
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Tony Dorsett

  • Born: April 7, 1954
  • Occupation: Football player