I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
In college, my best friends were an offensive lineman, a wide receiver and defensive back. In the pros, when you leave the… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
The rule is you don't play very long in this league. So you make the most out of it and you have… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I do follow the NFL. It took me a while to get back into it, but I do follow it religiously now.… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
Football is just a game. Everybody takes it so much more seriously than it is, but there are many more important things… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I don't believe I was meant to be a professional quarterback. I was meant to have these life experiences and be an… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I have a very small sample size: 2-0 to start my NFL career. Talking a lot of smack. And then I walk… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I'm pretty darn happy. I really wanted to go to San Diego and play for those offensive masterminds. I'm looking forward to… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a professional athlete. Young men and women from Montana don't make it to the professional level that often.… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
It's hard to transition out of football. Even when you're super successful, guys who have played 18 or 20 years and have… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else. — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
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… — Ryan Leaf Copy Share Image
