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Marcus Allen

"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."

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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 I was doing."

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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 then what our guys were doing every single play."
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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 not one of the top ones."
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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 name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing."
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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 go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible."
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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 you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work."
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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 the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place."
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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 great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with."
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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?"
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