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

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

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

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

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 yo…

- Marcus Allen

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 …

- Marcus Allen

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 a…

- Marcus Allen

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 o…

- Marcus Allen

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…

- Marcus Allen