Marcus Allen Quotes

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• That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.
• It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our…
• But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.
• It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force…
• There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most…
• At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of…
• I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.
• But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast,…
• It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?
• I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there.…
• To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity,…
• Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set…
• It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was…
• Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.
• 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 you what people…
• I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.
• That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that…
• You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game,…
• You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There…

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