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"It was not really like leaving a job after four years, it was 'right, I'm going to do my other job', " the 31-year-old philosophy graduate told BBC Sport.
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The most life-changing college course I ever took was philosophy and I know football is the only true sport.
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"The sport died in the '80s, " said Lou Marinoff, a philosophy professor at the City College of New York, and a Toronto Classic entrant.
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"You stand and fall by your philosophy and ours seem to be working, " Johnson, 52, told BBC Sport.
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