"The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress."
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"Greatness is the willingness to choose in the midst of intensity."
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"I've never been in trouble with the police."
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"I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside."
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"I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature."
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"People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I."
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"I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice."
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"I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about."
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"It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself."
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"I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence."
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"I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'"
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"I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad."
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"As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again."
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"I want people to think they can't die until they see me play."
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"I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me."
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"I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not."
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"Nine in the box... that's a football term."
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"I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now."
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"I really do love football."
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"It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul."
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