A biography for Ryan Leafhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not the type of guy who goes to members of my team or the other team and says, 'Hey, I'm awesome,' because I can improve in so many ways.”
“Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.”
“A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.”
“Try to be a better person everyday.”
“The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.”
“Everybody tells me, 'You're going to be fine.' Well, I know I'm going to be fine.”
“Being vulnerable is not a weakness.”
“I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often. And I always believed that because I was a great football player that made me better than you. And that's not the case at all.”
“The hole I've dug for myself is very big.”
“It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have won four Super Bowls, they still have difficulty with that transition. They believe they're not ever going to do anything that important again.”
“The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.”
“We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.”
“Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.”
“I had always been a quick healer.”