Marcus Allen Quotes

• Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.

  Marcus Allen

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Believe

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• It´s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation.

  Marcus Allen

  Art, Sex, Meditation

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• That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

  Marcus Allen

  Fear, Nfl, Best Football

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• There are two types of players: those who know and those who don’t. The smartest ones usually play the longest and [are] usually the most successful.

  Marcus Allen

  Successful, Player, Two

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• But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

  Marcus Allen

  Football, Nfl, Best Football

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Running, Games

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• I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Thinking, Should

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• 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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Ambition, Thinking

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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?

  Marcus Allen

  Team, Player, College

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Athlete, Years, Games

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Fall, Names

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

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Guy, Trying

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Moving, World

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Running, People

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Football, Running

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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.

  Marcus Allen

  Sports, Games, Prejudice

  Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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