Ryan Leaf Quotes

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Ryan Leaf

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 15, 1976

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.

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Try to be a better person everyday.

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I had always been a quick healer.

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There was a joke going around campus when I was at Washington State. It went, 'What's the difference between God and Ryan Leaf?' The punchline was, 'God doesn't think he's Ryan Leaf.'

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I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the media. At that level you just cannot do that. You just cannot do it. I couldn't stop it, and I didn't try to stop it.

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Everybody tells me, 'You're going to be fine.' Well, I know I'm going to be fine.

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When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

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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.

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The third game of my career, we played Kansas City and I played as poorly as I've ever played in my life. I completed one of 15 passes and had two interceptions.

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I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.

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I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.

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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.

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If you deny the fact that things are happening to you, that this is going on, whether it's negative or positive, you're just putting yourself behind the 8-ball because you're not facing it head on and dealing with it in a positive way that you've learned how to.

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I had many orthopedic surgeries.

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The NFL Legends Community is the epitome of service. This isn't about promoting you anymore. It's about promoting something bigger than you.

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I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.

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

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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.

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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.

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Life is life and there are always going to be struggles. But when you're doing the next right thing it seems to make everything a little easier, a little bit better and a lot happier.

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