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Marcus Allen

"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'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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"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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