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" I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer. "
DeAngelo Williams
Knowing
Grew
Cancer
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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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Youth
" 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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" The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student. "
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College
You
" 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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" When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy. "
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Took
Mom
Enemy
" 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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Best
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" You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you. "
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You
" You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right? "
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Right
Hockey
Fights
" As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup. "
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Team
Football
Football Team
" 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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Person
Fun
You
" 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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Winning
Years
Picture
" Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it. "
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I Can
Back
Memphis
" 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
Win
You
" 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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Back
Direction
Going
" Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do. "
DeAngelo Williams
Women
Football
Flag
" 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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Play
Game
People
" 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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Got
Money
NFL
" 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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October
Pride
Pink
" 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. "
DeAngelo Williams
Understand
You
Any
" Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all. "
DeAngelo Williams
Being
Me
Pressure
" 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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More
NFL
Play
" 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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Friends
Man
Talk
" Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me. "
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Color
Me
Pink
" We just want to win. It doesn't matter how the stats look. "
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Want
Look
Matter
" Anything in between the white lines is deemed football. "
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White
Anything
Football
" 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
Me
Going
" You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game. "
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You
Never
Go
" It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell. "
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Like
Lose
You
" My mom was the strongest woman I know. "
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Strongest
Woman
Know
" I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself. "
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Through
Push
Myself