Edgerrin James Quotes

• I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

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  Followers, Gang

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• To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

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  Numbers, Want, Speak

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• All my life has been about proving myself.

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  Prove, Has Beens

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• It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

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  Years, Politics, Chickens

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• My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

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  World, Broke, Depends

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• Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

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  Fun, Kids, Cities

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• I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

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  Moving, Important, Want

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• People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

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  Believe, People, Giving

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• I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

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  Real, Pride, Rooms

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• I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.

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  Nfl, Levels, Want

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• I was a man by middle school.

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  School, Men, Middle School

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• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

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  Stupid, Taken, Laughing

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• I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

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  Real, Stupid, Want

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• I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

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  Airports, Class, Tourists

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• My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

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  Way, My Way

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• Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

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  Football, Trust Me, Walks

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• I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

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  Real, Simple, Want

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• My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.

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  Fun, Goal, Want

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• I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

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  Mom, Hate, Done

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