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Marcus Allen

"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. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."

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"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. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."

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Akshay Vasu

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Akshay Vasu

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"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."

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Akshay Vasu

"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."

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"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."

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"Football said,"Why I am not a cricket ball to get a shot from Sachin"."

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Marcus Allen
"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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Marcus Allen
"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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Marcus Allen
"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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Marcus Allen
"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."

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Marcus Allen
"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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Marcus Allen
"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. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."

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Marcus Allen
"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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Marcus Allen
"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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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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Marcus Allen
"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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