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" I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker. "
Junior Seau
Average
Fear
Real
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" I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back. "
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" The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu. "
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Best
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" I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am. "
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Kind
Tough
" Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough. "
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You
Trying
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" I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys. "
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Remember
" The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect. "
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Club
Me
" When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.' "
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First
Started
Playing
" Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport. "
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Pride
Conversation
Church
" The past isn't going to get you to your goal. "
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Goal
You
Your
" I'm basically a homegrown American. "
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Basically
Homegrown
American
" When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. "
Junior Seau
Me
Job
Reality
" I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. "
Junior Seau
Day
I Am
Live
" From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised. "
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Old
Tomorrow
You
" You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. "
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Know
You
Hockey
" Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political. "
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Doing
Political
Great
" My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that. "
Junior Seau
Realize
Nothing
Life
" I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me. "
Junior Seau
Control
Me
Handle
" Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today. "
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Football
Me
Long
" No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back. "
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You
Life
Looking
" For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it. "
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Parents
Love
Sea
" I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school. "
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High School
Football
Work
" The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future. "
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Foundation
Chance
People
" To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough. "
Junior Seau
Story
Words
Tough
" A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it. "
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You
Perfect
Look
" Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play. "
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Love
Run
Me
" As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful. "
Junior Seau
Always
Hood
Learning
" The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. "
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Today
Soul
Man
" No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English. "
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Together
" No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two. "
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Want
Two
Tiger