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Ryan Leaf Quotes
Ryan Leaf Quotes
Ryan Leaf
American
Athlete
Born:
May 15
,
1976
Because
Better
Life
Me
People
You
I lay my head down every night with a ton of gratitude.
Ryan Leaf
Gratitude
Down
Every
Lay
Head
Ton
Every Night
Night
I lied all my life.
Ryan Leaf
Life
My Life
All My Life
Lied
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.
Ryan Leaf
Integrity
Back
See
Had
Toward
Look
How
Dad
Gravitate
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.
Ryan Leaf
Work
Time
Me
People
Practice
Field
Every
Every Time
Dreaded
Stepped
Like
Diego
Any
Going
San
San Diego
Fun
Playing
I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.
Ryan Leaf
Problem
Talented
Self-Esteem
Egomaniac
I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.
Ryan Leaf
Ego
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Giant
Athlete
Had
Self-Conscious
Guys like me can put on 10-15 pounds in a week.
Ryan Leaf
Me
Guys
Week
Pounds
Put
Like
I had always been a quick healer.
Ryan Leaf
Had
Healer
Always
Been
Quick
I'm stubborn.
Ryan Leaf
Stubborn
I mean this country is all about second chances. Look at me.
Ryan Leaf
Me
Country
About
Look
Mean
Second
Second Chances
Chances
I definitely don't want to do anything associated with the NFL.
Ryan Leaf
Definitely
NFL
Want
Anything
Associated
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.
Ryan Leaf
Fashion
You
Yourself
Long
Rule
Out
League
Look
Most
Make
Very
Play
I was good at two things, athletics and lying.
Ryan Leaf
Good
Lying
Athletics
Things
Two
If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.
Ryan Leaf
You
Ghost
Feel
Like
Look
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.
Ryan Leaf
Change
Idiot
NFL
He
Head
Head Coach
Supposed
Anything
Mean
Coach
Mike
I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.
Ryan Leaf
Better
College
Consequences
Way
Messed
Messed Up
Deal
Up
Coach
Found
People say I'm arrogant or cocky. You know what it is? I feel that I have a good chance to win ball games.
Ryan Leaf
Good
You
People
Win
Arrogant
Say
I Feel
People Say
Feel
Know
Ball
Ball Games
Good Chance
Games
Cocky
Chance
Try to be a better person everyday.
Ryan Leaf
Better
Try
Everyday
Better Person
Person
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.
Ryan Leaf
Time
Daily
Better
Long
Long Time
Out
Better Person
Person
Trying
Human
Human Beings
Flawed
Figure
Beings
Daily Basis
Basis
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.'
Ryan Leaf
God
Joke
Think
State
Ryan
He
Between
Leaf
Around
Campus
Going
Difference
Washington
Washington State
When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.
Ryan Leaf
Me
Job
Lost
Football
Became
Playing
Luster
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.
Ryan Leaf
You
Important
Believe
Difficulty
Out
Super
Super Bowls
Guys
Football
Bowls
Still
Years
Won
Going
Anything
Again
Transition
Successful
Hard
Who
Even
Ever
Four
Played
Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.
Ryan Leaf
Time
People
Money
Care
Assumption
don't Care
Making
Time People
Lots
dont Care
So Much Money
Much
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.
Ryan Leaf
Great
You
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Kid
Could
Beat
Know
Felt
Understand
Going
Just
Realize
How you deal with things is what matters.
Ryan Leaf
You
Matters
Deal
How
Things
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.
Ryan Leaf
Think
I Think
Would
Only
Football
Football Player
Known
Been
Tragedy
Just
Who
Player
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