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Former Giant Perry Williams talks success, perseverance at N.J. middle school

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JERSEY CITY - Perry Williams was an 11-year-old boy living in North Carolina when he decided he would one day earn a college football scholarship, play in the NFL, and win a Super Bowl championship.

His mother and grandmother joked with him, saying maybe he'll win a toilet bowl some day.

"I used to tell them that I was going to be somebody one day," Williams said. "I was going to make something positive happen in my life."

Fourteen years later Williams was a cornerback for the New York Giants playing in Super Bowl XXI.