Randall Cunningham Quotes

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Randall Cunningham

Profession : Football Player

Birth : March 27, 1963

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.

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The thing is, I retired as a Philadelphia Eagle, so I would never turn my back on the Philadelphia Eagles.

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I had never played in cold weather. But then I ended up being drafted by the perfect team for me.

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When I was in high school, my high school coach told me if I ran he was going to bench me. So I didn't run in high school. Then in college, if you look at my statistics, I had negative yards rushing because they took the sacks off of your rushing yards.

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I think that when you get married or have other special anniversaries, you do it up the best that you can.

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Whenever you've gone through wounds and things like that, there comes a day where God heals you. And he healed me.

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I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.

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Let me be me.

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The people are great people in Minnesota. I loved playing there.

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If I hadn't gone through the hardships I've gone through and been rebuked and hated by the Giant fans and the Cowboy fans and the Raider fans, I would not have been nourished in the area of maturity.

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If I hadn't received a scholarship in football, I would have received it in track. It is actually my favorite sport.

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Many sports fans, they love their team, and that's the one thing they get to cling on to when things aren't going good, is their team and when the team lets them down, it's a big letdown.

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When Cris Carter didn't get into the Hall of Fame, I was completely shocked. That blew my mind.

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I'm able to be a pastor now because of the strength and my mentality and integrity that was built in Philadelphia, by going through the hardship and going through the good times and that made me a man. When I went there I was just a kid and I didn't understand things.

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We're all forgiven and we can mature in Christ.

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The players really need someone who is going to be like a brother, a father figure - someone they can lean on and talk to outside of the organization - and that's what we had in Minnesota.

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I'm so proud to see that I went through an era when it wasn't popular to be an African-American quarterback. Then, to see how things have turned around. It's not about the African-American quarterback. It's about the quarterback who has an ability to do everything.

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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.

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My favorite quarterback of all time is still Steve Young.

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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.

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