29 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

I was happy that right away we played Tennessee, I was happy that we played Oklahoma right off the top. Those games certainly helped me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.