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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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"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."

"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 want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now."

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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?"

"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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