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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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Love, Big, Atmosphere, Memphis

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

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Football Team, Anybody, Backup

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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Game, Play, Starter, Backup

Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.

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Me, Call, No Pressure, Backup

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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Why, Your, Slowing, Hear People

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

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How, Amazed, How Much, Much Attention

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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Will, Competing, Worst Thing, Versus

It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.

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Emotional, Always, Like, Blow

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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Dress, Everybody, I Think, Cliches

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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Shy, Like, Read, Novels

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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Pink, Spirit, About, Prevention

I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself.

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Kind, Through, How, Push

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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Been, Telling, Brought, Intent

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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Game, Injuries, Persevere, Dictate

Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.

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Football, White, Deemed, Lines

My mom was the strongest woman I know.

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Mom, Woman, Know, Strongest

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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Passionate, Part, About, Firsthand

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

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Need, Going, Everybody, Stand Up

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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Going, Expected, Thrown, Catch

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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School, College, High, Elementary School

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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Play, Football Player, Based, NFL

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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Capacity, Got, Opened, NFL

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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Cares, Starter, Plays, Productive

Speak your mind; you don't have to be PC.

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Mind, Speak, Your, PC

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

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Knowing, Breast Cancer, Cancer

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

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Know, Breast Cancer, Lot, Cancer

When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.

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Breast Cancer, Took, Biggest, Cancer

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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Career, Numbers, Want, Statistic

I grew up watching wrestling.

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Watching, Up, Grew, Wrestling

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

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College, Student, Broke, College Student

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