Q 13

PLAYBOY: If the money were the same, would you rather be a track star or a professional football player?

Herschel Walker: A track star, because I love track. But I'm a better football player, and I think you should do what you are best at.

Q 14

PLAYBOY: Do you watch much football on TV?

Herschel Walker: No. I rarely watch games. But I am a Dallas Cowboys fan.

Q 15

PLAYBOY: You were one of the most sought-after football players in history when you were in high school. What was the best under-the-table offer you got?

Herschel Walker: I got a lot of them. But you can't cheat your way through life. Those offers sounded good when coaches were recruiting me, but after I committed myself, it might have been a different story. One school said they would move my family to another city and guarantee my financial security for the rest of my life. But I knew that would never happen. I also had a lot of car offers; but during my senior year, my mother and father bought me a car for graduation, so I told the recruiters I didn't need another one.

Q 16

PLAYBOY: We've heard that some of the people in your hometown--Wrightsville, Georgia--freaked out when you were seen playing tennis with a white girl in high school. What was that all about?

Herschel Walker: At the time, there were a lot of racial things going on in Wrightsville, but I don't get involved with that kind of thing, because all of us have to live in this world. I don't believe in all this racial controversy. Some of the people in town wanted me to lead a riot, but I didn't think it was right, because I didn't know that much about the issues. I wasn't in town much during that time. They said I didn't want to help them. I couldn't help them if I didn't know what the fuss was all about. And I couldn't help them out if I disagreed with some of their ideas.

Q 17

PLAYBOY: Why are there no black place kickers?

Herschel Walker: A lot of people say it's a racial thing. But if it is racial, it's because black people are, in general, blessed with strength and speed and quickness and they are too valuable in other positions to make place kickers out of them.

Q 18

PLAYBOY: Should college football players be allowed to turn pro before they graduate, as basketball players are?

Herschel Walker: College athletes should have the right to decide for themselves. Playing in the NFL is a professional job. A person should have the right to decide whether or not he wants to go to work. If a player gets injured in college, the NFL is not going to draft you. You don't come out of college.

Q 19

PLAYBOY: Which pro team do you hope will draft you?

Herschel Walker: I'm not going to name names, but I wouldn't join a team whose players think negative and play just for the money. Also, I'm not a cold-weather guy.

Q 20

PLAYBOY: How important to you is winning the Heisman Trophy?

Herschel Walker: The only reason I would like to win it is that I didn't win it the past two years. When you lose something over and over, you get to where you want to win it. But I don't think it would prove anything to me. If I never win the Heisman Trophy, then in my later years, I'll have nothing to sit around and brag about.