"I've given everything I can possible to the game, on and off the field."
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"Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record."
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"Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge."
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"Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person."
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"I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing."
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"History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history."
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"As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries."
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"I'm very confident I'm one of the best to ever play the game, but once you talk about the greatest, how can you define greatest?"
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"Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime."
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"Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week."
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"I'm an enigma, an unknown."
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"Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don't have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things."
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"One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football."
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"What we shared and what we were able to accomplish on the football field was something unbelievable."
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"Vision gets the dreams started."
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"I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit."
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"There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do."
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"I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make."
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"Emmitt Smith is in a position, in my opinion, where he should be the highest-paid running back in football. He's a guy who has gone out and led the league in rushing and been productive."
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"I love to play bid whist as much as I love football."
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