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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
Herschel Walker: I didn't grow up - my parents didn't have a lot of money. My high school didn't have a lot of money to afford a lot of the expensive weights. You know all this stuff. They used that as an excuse. I started doing push-ups and sit-ups during commercials as I was watching TV. And started doing about, sometimes 2,000 push-ups, 3,000 sit-ups, 1500 pull-ups, 1000 dips, or different things like that. I started creating different hand positions for all that, then I learned that could work you out.
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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
Everything should be looked at in a positive way. Whether it was something bad that happening in your life, but it helped you to get better. Sometimes your parents say don't touch that, it's hot. But if you never touch it, you're never going to know. So even though that was a negative response, it made a positive response in your mind because now you know not to touch it anymore. Mistakes should be taken as a training tool to help you to get better. I lost a brother, and I was so mad at God, I was mad at everyone, but yet, it helped me to understand God a little bit more, because God is never going to give me a burden I can't handle. And yet, I was being selfish. "Herschel, you are being selfish. God is going to take care of your brother better than you could have done if he was here." I was being selfish. So, that negative response came out to be positive because now I know God a little bit more. I know that "Herschel, you were selfish." Now I know how to react on the next go-round.
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Herschel Walker
All-American Football Player
Life is almost like a tree for a 15 year-old. Where he don't know where he's going to branch off to, but if you try to stay at this one thing, you know, he's never going to blossom. And the reason why is because you don't know your talents. I never thought I was going to be a football player, but now I'm a football player. Being a football player I was able to go into the business world and do well. I was able to do this, I was able to do that. But I think if I had said, "Okay Herschel, you're a basketball player. Stay with basketball," I never would have done anything. Because I'm not. I can play, but I'm not a professional basketball player. So I think when you're young, sometimes you've got to have an open mind to take on other challenges. You may get into it, and you may like it a little bit more than you think.
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Mike Wallace
CBS News Correspondent
I think it was WASH until noon and WOOD until midnight or something of that sort. It was part of the Michigan Radio Network back then. That gave me an opportunity. Truly, you could do everything in the world. You could do news. You could do sports, not play-by-play, but color and quiz broadcasts. When people talk to me about what they should do, that's the way, even today, I think that some young individual who wants to go into broadcasting should start. First of all, forget about communication school or journalism school to begin with. If you want to go to journalism school, fine. Wait until you finish college and had a good LS&A background, literature, science and the arts background. Know your economics, know your history, know your political science and write. Then you can learn your trade, so to speak, in television or radio simply by doing, starting out as an intern and learning how to do everything, but you've to do that in a small market so that you have an opportunity to be bad before you are good and nobody is going to throw you out of a job.
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