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Marcus Allen

(1960) American Football Player

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Marcus Allen is an American football player, best known for Impossible Way.

Quick Facts About Marcus Allen

Born: March 26, 1960
Profession: American Football Player
Notable works: Impossible Way

About Marcus Allen

Marcus LeMarr Allen is an American former professional football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 seasons, primarily with the Los Angeles Raiders. Considered one of the greatest goal line and short-yard runners in NFL history, he was selected 10th overall by the Raiders in the 1982 NFL draft, following a successful college football career with the USC Trojans. He was a member of the Raiders for 11 seasons and spent his last five seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Marcus Allen

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let…

Death

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To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your…

Facts

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Love yourself, respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what other people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely…

Accomplish

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I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of…

Athlete

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You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to…

Ambition

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You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a…

Because

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It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play,…

Awareness

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There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are]…

Knows

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It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance…

Art

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But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Best football

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At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but…

Gains

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It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

Being the best

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I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what…

Almost

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Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows…

All-american

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Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

Television

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I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

Capable

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But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on…

Bias

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That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to…

Capable

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It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and…

Best football

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