Marcus Allen

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

#inspirational #death

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

— Marcus Allen

#barry #everybody #head #me #shoulders

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

#bias #coast #east #east coast #fact

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

— Marcus Allen

#even #guys #keep #mainly #much

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. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#because #even #go #going #had

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

#close #doing #felt #gained #games

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

#candidate #gain #ones #over #people

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#doing #earlier #i #observe #outside

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

#back #defensively #doing #every #guys

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

#best #college #hard #how #player