A Quote by Derek Carr
I don't really like the business side of football, but I just like adding good players to our football team.
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I like our whole team. That's the biggest thing about football. It's got to be your whole team. It just can't be one side carrying the other.
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People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The reality is, there are a lot of football players like me who came out of the middle class.
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