Ryan Leaf Quotes

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Ryan Leaf

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 15, 1976

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.

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When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.

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I'm actually pretty reserved.

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About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.

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Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.

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The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.

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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.

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I don't care if I go 2 for 40. If we win, it doesn't matter.

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Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things in my life.

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I grew up in a really supportive environment.

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I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved.

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I thought I was a god. I was more important than you, because I could do this thing where I played a silly sport that made me a better human being, in my eyes.

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I defy anybody to be of service to another human being and not have the most peaceful night of sleep you've had in a long, long time.

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There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.

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If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.

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I lied all my life.

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

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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.

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How you deal with things is what matters.

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

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