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I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn’t have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

Barry Sanders

It’s hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.
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Amount Put Team Together Winning
The Heisman is the biggest award I’ve ever won.
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Awards Biggest Won
As a kid, I played my share of football in the street or in a vacant lot.
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Football Kids Vacant
Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.
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Football Good Important Laundry Rule
Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream.
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Mouth People Scared Thinking Tried
The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team
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Best Football Reason Team
I just felt like I had run out of steam. I just felt like it was my time.
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Running Steam Time
I’m a Jewish boy from Jersey. I was born with a strong sense of right and wrong, and a strong sense that the world can be a ludicrous, unfair, inhumane place.
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Boys Strong World
I’m from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that’s for sure.
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Field Kansas Lot Running Street Taken
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that’s why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn’t even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
BARRY SANDERS

Enough Good Looks Thinking
You know, I’m fairly intelligent, but I don’t think my grades reflected that.
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Grades Intelligent Reflect Thinking
It’s probably similar to being in New York City and having a cab driver behind you and you’re driving too slow. It’s not the most pleasant thing.
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Cities Country Football
See God gave us the talent, but the devil make us famous.
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Devil God Make Talent
Running back was always my favorite position.
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Favorite Position Running
Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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Feelings Last Sports
One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.
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Challenges Lines Sometimes

I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn’t have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

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