Ryan Leaf

“I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now. Huge Packers and Steelers fan.”

“I don't want anybody to know anything about me.”

“I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.”

“Everybody's got some things that have happened bad in their past. Mine was just very public.”

“I've made mistakes and made them bigger because of the way I have reacted to them.”

“When do you realize when you're a kid that you're going to be great and everybody else doesn't understand that? I don't know. I just felt I could beat everybody.”

“I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.”

“I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.”

“The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have to look at yourself in that fashion.”

“I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.”

“In college, my best friends were an offensive lineman, a wide receiver and defensive back. In the pros, when you leave the practice field, players go their separate ways because they are married.”

“I'm the kind of competitor where if I'm able to play, I've got to play.”

“I lay my head down every night with a ton of gratitude.”

“I don't know if I was ever meant to have that flashy lifestyle.”

“When I bought my first house I had all these red flags on my credit report because I bounced a bunch of checks to places like Pizza Hut and stuff like that for $13 or $15 because I was trying to feed my O-linemen.”

“I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk into Kansas City and put up the worst football game of my existence. And I've always been this brash, arrogant kind of guy.”

“A lot of people said they prayed for me. I felt their prayers.”

“I don't look at myself and think I'm that special.”

“I was good at two things, athletics and lying.”

“I definitely don't want to do anything associated with the NFL.”