Marcus Allen Quotes

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I was a good football player, and I had a chance to play with some great players.

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision.

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

Oftentimes, the post safety will eye me up pre-snap a lot of times and know where I am.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

I was a ball guy. I played basketball, baseball, football. I excelled in football the most. I played running back, wide receiver, safety, kick returner, punt returner.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

I knew I was in charge when with the ball. But on the toughest defenders I faced, I would say that my African brothers were the ones. We have the same mentality and thought the same way. Osei Kuffour was the toughest of them all.

Football is not an exact science, but it is about chemistry: Ronaldo and Mandzukic, when they are together, have an excellent understanding.

Attacking is the tough part in football; defending is relatively easy.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

In football, you cannot only play because of your quality and talent. Defence is a must.

When I was in Germany I never played like this, so defensive - almost a left-back, but that is good for me because defensive work was something I missed in Germany.

I don't put nothing past no man who ever played the game of football.

Tackling and playing well in space against any spread offense is very important.

I think a goalkeeper has to participate at the back of the defence and come off the line to play.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.