Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Ryan Leaf - Page 2

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.

When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I had to pretend I still made $5 million a year.

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

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

I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

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

I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.

I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.

Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.

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.

I don't judge anybody until I meet them.

I didn't know how to deal with real life issues the right way as a humble human being until I was humbled to the point of being put in a jail cell.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

I lied all my life.

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

Playing in the NFL, it's a privilege, it's not a right.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.

Try to be a better person everyday.

You don't want to say the money changes you, but it definitely does.

How you deal with things is what matters.

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

People make too big a deal about me.

I look back and see the integrity my dad had, but I didn't gravitate toward that. I don't see how I didn't.

I'm stubborn.

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.

Put me in the game, and my team will win 9 times out of 10.

I mean this country is all about second chances. Look at me.

I don't believe I was meant to be a professional quarterback. I was meant to have these life experiences and be an impact on others who've struggled. That's what I'm meant to do.

How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's that going to affect me?

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

If you can't admit your faults how can you ever grow?

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

I'm pretty darn happy. I really wanted to go to San Diego and play for those offensive masterminds. I'm looking forward to a 15-year career, a couple of trips to the Super Bowl and a parade through downtown San Diego.