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Quincy Roche Talks Tourette Syndrome, How It Gave Him An Advantage In Football

I believe one of the most important lessons that everybody should learn early on in their lives is that you can’t see everything that a person might be dealing with or have gone through just by looking at them. The most positive person in the world might have a truly difficult life, or vice versa.

You might not know it just to be around him, but Quincy Roche has dealt with Tourette syndrome throughout his life. Yet he recently talked to Teresa Varley for the Pittsburgh Steelers’ website about how he has learned to live with it, and even to use it to his advantage when it comes time to take the field.