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I lied all my life.
I'm actually pretty reserved.
I had always been a quick healer.
I don't want to coach in the NFL.
Being vulnerable is not a weakness.
Try to be a better person everyday.
The hole I've dug for myself is very big.
I grew up in a really supportive environment.
I was good at two things, athletics and lying.
If you look like a ghost, you feel like a ghost.
I didn't leave school early to sit on the bench.
Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.
I was a talented egomaniac with a self-esteem problem.
I lay my head down every night with a ton of gratitude.
I grew up in Montana and played football my whole life.
Playing in the NFL, it's a privilege, it's not a right.
I mean this country is all about second chances. Look at me.
A lot of people said they prayed for me. I felt their prayers.
When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.
I don't know if I was ever meant to have that flashy lifestyle.
I definitely don't want to do anything associated with the NFL.
There's freedom in being rigorously honest. I lied all my life.
When I enjoyed football the most was when I wasn't getting paid.
I kind of got out of the spotlight and life's never been this good.
I spent money on all the wrong things. Private airfare. Things like that.
I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.
Many times somebody tried to help me be constructive and I just pushed them away.
I was an ego maniac with a self-esteem problem and that's what most addicts are like.
Lots of time people have the assumption that I'm making so much money that I don't care.
I think the failure in the NFL has humbled me in the fact that I don't think I'm the best.
I was always worried about what others were thinking about me or how I was being perceived.
Certainly, with my giant overinflated ego, playing in the CFL would have been like failing.
I've always been a stubborn guy and you've got to beat me up before I'll start doing something.
People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.
I had two amazing parents, two younger brothers, grandparents, a supportive community. Really loved.
I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.
People say I'm arrogant or cocky. You know what it is? I feel that I have a good chance to win ball games.
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.
The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.
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.
When people ask where I'm from, I tell them Washington, because that's where I feel the most comforted by the people.
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.
How can I go from this poor college kid one day and the next day get a check for $7 million. How's that going to affect me?
A lot of times people say they want a fresh start, but you can't really have a fresh start because it doesn't happen that way.
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.
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.
I'm going to make a difference in other people's lives because who I am as a person rather than who I was as a football player.
We're all flawed human beings trying to be better but there's consequences to your actions and you have to be accountable for 'em.
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.
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.