Ryan Leaf Quotes

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Ryan Leaf

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 15, 1976

When you're talking to potential professional athletes, I really like to talk about the fact that even though you're a great athlete, that doesn't make you a good person. And if you can build that foundation first, everything else usually follows suit.

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Being vulnerable is not a weakness.

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You grow from all those things you go through.

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

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

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When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

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I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.

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I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.

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I don't feel bad for myself.

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

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I don't want to coach in the NFL.

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Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.

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

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Every time I stepped on the practice field when I was in San Diego, I dreaded going to work. It wasn't any fun. I didn't like the people I was playing with. They didn't like me.

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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.

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People don't understand that if I would have stayed in Tampa, I might have disappeared and people would have forgotten about me. That may be good in some ways, but not in others.

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I didn't leave school early to sit on the bench.

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I mean, Mike Riley is an idiot, but I can't do anything to change that. He wasn't supposed to be a head coach in the NFL.

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I know the Chargers made mistakes, but I made a bunch of mistakes myself, and I've got to take responsibility for that.

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Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.

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