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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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"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 the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing."
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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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"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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"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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