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Why can't I just be a running back?
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Just Be
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My mom was the strongest woman I know.
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Mom
Strongest
Woman
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Speak your mind; you don't have to be PC.
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Mind Your Speak
Pc
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Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.
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Color
Pink
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I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer
Cancer
Importance
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Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.
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Deemed
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When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
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Breast Cancer
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You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.
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Amazed
Much Attention
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Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.
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Backup
No Pressure
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Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.
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Memphis
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I'm hunting one thing and one thing only, and that's the Super Bowl.
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Hunting
Super Bowl
Bowl
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There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.
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Breast Cancer
People Know Who
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You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?
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Hockey
Scores
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You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.
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Playoff
Teams
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As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.
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Backup
Football Team
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I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.
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Everybody Else
Stand Up
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It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.
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Blow
Bell
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I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.
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Apologizing
Tweets
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Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.
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Flag
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I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.
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Doors
Nfl
Opened
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The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.
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Broke
College Student
National Football League
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When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.
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Nobody Cares
Cares
Number
Plays
Starter
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Every veteran out there, veteran or rookie, they want to go to the Super Bowl and win it and get the best opportunity.
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Super Bowl
Veteran
Bowl
Rookie
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People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.
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Memphis
Me Game People
Bowl
Game Me People
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I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.
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Thrown
Catch
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You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
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Backup
League
Starter
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I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.
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Breast Cancer
Cancer
Nfl
October
Prevention
Pride
Everywhere
Conversations
Pink
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If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.
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Elementary School
Nfl
Elementary
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The biggest picture you see is making it to the Super Bowl and winning it. There are a lot of guys who have played 14, 15, 16 years and never been there.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
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When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.
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Competing
Versus
Smile Face Your
Have Fun
Worst Thing
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I'm really shy, man. I don't really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don't have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.
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Graphic
Graphic Novels
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You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.
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Football Game
Grass
Persevere
Blade
Defend
Dictate
Injuries
Outcome
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Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.
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Breast Cancer
Cancer
Impact
Passionate
Firsthand
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I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.
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Numbers
Super Bowl
Bowl
Statistic
Swing
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In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
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Football Player
Nfl
Yards
Labeled
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It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?
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Football Player
Hey
Slowing
Coincide
Hear People
Just Be
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The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.
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Atmosphere
Exposure
Flashy
Great Team
Memphis
Offense
Profile
Love Great City
Big City
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On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.
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Arkansas
Exclamation
Right Decision
Dreaming
Intent
Letter
Signed
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I did start out quiet, and I found out you can change a person's life by simply saying, 'Hey,' or, 'How was your day?' Not everybody gets that opportunity with the way society views you or how you look or the way you dress or how you interact. You hear the weird cliches: socially awkward. I think we're all socially awkward.
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Awkward
Hey
Quiet
Views
Life Change Society
Cliches
Interact
Socially
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