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Where we made the magic happen, huh Marques?

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This is where it took place. Darling Stadium. Why would a

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young person from this area choose UVA?

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I mean, what are some of the benefits

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that you gained from your UVA experience?

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I think I was able to grow because coming

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from -- Hampton High School's a predominantly

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black school, and most people

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that come into to Hampton High School,

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or probably most of the schools in the

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city of Hampton, are more recruiting for

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military. All we really saw

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coming up was the military coming in and

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out, and you know that's kind of like

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something that's ingrained in you

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subliminally, like "Man, military once I

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graduate, military once I graduate." And

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so when you get an opportunity to get an

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invitation like a scholarship from

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school like UVA, you're like, "Wow, you guys really

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think I can make it there?" And when I got

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the opportunity to go there,

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I grew and learned so much. I think

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just that notion that I could become more --

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I learned so much about myself at the

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University of Virginia. (Radio announcer: Hagans goes up, makes the catch! Holy cow! What a catch by Hagans!)

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I really felt like I was able to grow

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and develop and become so much more, and

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I had like a hidden potential that I

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never knew existed, so I'm really

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thankful for that opportunity. All of the things you just talked about -- that's why

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you're such a great role model for our

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students. And yet you don't know it at

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the time -- you didn't think about

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that at the time that you were on this

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field, a football star on Friday night, and

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then on Saturday morning, your granddad

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is like, "OK, let's get up and go to work."

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Right? But that that work ethic, those

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values to continuously try to get better,

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to do more, to do more than what was

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expected of you -- all of those values are

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timeless. You've been there, you've done

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it, you know what it takes to succeed, you

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know what it takes to to push yourself,

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and that's something that you really

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can't place a value on that. At all.

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Now does your family still live here? My granddad

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lives in there with my aunt.  What's the

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dog's name?  Guppy. We would play football right

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here in the front yard. Isn't that funny how small it is now? It was big to you, I bet.

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It was huge, yeah. I would be about 10

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Or 12 of us in the front yard, just

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playing. And then that, just -- believe it or

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not, you had to touch the fence to score

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a touchdown. These are probably

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still here from us, I guess.

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If we agree diversity matters,

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and if we agree that diversity is

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important, then what are we willing to do

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for the sake of [unintelligible]? Our deepest fear is not

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that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear

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is that we are powerful beyond measure.

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It is our light, not our darkness that

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frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be

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brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

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Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Thank you and go 'Hoos!

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