Carl Nassib

“If you have a walk-on's mentality - just grinding every day, just earning your keep every day - it's just the way to do it.”

“I love winning.”

“When I decided to come out, it was not easy. Personally, for my life, I didn't want to do it. But I felt a huge obligation to my community, to all the young kids out there who are struggling with their sexuality. If I could help just a few of them out, then I could sleep better at night.”

“With long-term investing, index funds are a great tool.”

“The only stats that matter to me are the wins and losses every week.”

“I do not know all the history behind our courageous L.G.B.T.Q. community, but I am eager to learn and to help continue the fight for equality and acceptance.”

“We really just want to encourage grassroots movements. And we want to make it cultural, where it's part of society to get up and do something.”

“The NFL career is a fickle one. Who knows when it's going to end.”

“Awards never meant that much to me until I got them.”

“I just wanted to show that it really doesn't matter, your sexual orientation.”

“I think I'm hilarious.”

“When people come out, they're coming out of the closet because they're afraid. They fear that they're going to have a negative impact on their life, on their relationships, on their job. I just hope that one day we don't have those fears - that's the society I hope for one day. And I hope I can be a positive push in that direction.”

“It's hard to see where all this hard work is going when you don't see results for 4-5 years.”

“When I earned my scholarship, it really motivated me to let everybody that I was the real deal.”

“I never cared what other people thought of me.”

“Every day I wanted to be the best. My mom will tell you that I called her and I didn't know if I wanted to play football anymore, and she told me I didn't have to. All I said was 'I just want to be the best.'”

“I want to be one of those people who can look at myself in the mirror and know I did everything I could to be the best that I can.”

“Being young we have a much larger time span to invest.”

“I think that there are Swifties everywhere.”

“I've always had dreams of going to the NFL.”