Ryan Leaf

I'm actually pretty reserved.

— Ryan Leaf

I had always been a quick healer.

— Ryan Leaf

People make too big a deal about me.

— Ryan Leaf

I lied all my life.

— Ryan Leaf

I don't want to coach in the NFL.

— Ryan Leaf

Being vulnerable is not a weakness.

— Ryan Leaf

I had many orthopedic surgeries.

— Ryan Leaf

I don't feel bad for myself.

— Ryan Leaf

The hole I've dug for myself is very big.

— Ryan Leaf

I've lived on $400 a month in college. I've lived on it fine.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would…

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

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

I've made mistakes and made them bigger because of the way I have reacted to them.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.

— Ryan Leaf

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

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…

— Ryan Leaf

About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest…

— Ryan Leaf

In college, my best friends were an offensive lineman, a wide receiver and defensive back. In the pros, when you leave the…

— Ryan Leaf

When I retired, I took my money from the financial planner and proceeded to present the front that everything was fine. I…

— Ryan Leaf

When I bought my first house I had all these red flags on my credit report because I bounced a bunch of…

— Ryan Leaf

There was a joke going around campus when I was at Washington State. It went, 'What's the difference between God and Ryan…

— Ryan Leaf

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

I was fighting a war on two fronts. I was fighting the best defenses in professional football and I was fighting the…

— Ryan Leaf

Try to be a better person everyday.

— Ryan Leaf

I don't judge anybody until I meet them.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

— Ryan Leaf

You grow from all those things you go through.

— Ryan Leaf

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

— Ryan Leaf