"What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities."
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"I've always been shy, but in New Orleans there were times my shyness would cause me actual physical pain. I'd get so claustrophobic around people that I'd bend over from the sickness in my stomach. That's not a good way to be when you're famous, obviously."
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"Coaches want so many things from a back. It's hard to find someone like Edgerrin James or Marshall Faulk, someone you can trust to block, catch and be physical. But I can do all those things."
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"Football is my job, not my life, but it's a job I'm going to give my all for as long as I'm in it."
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"I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place."
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"Depending on their fondest memory of you, most people hold on so tightly to their fondest memory they don’t usually let you be anything greater than that. And that’s one of the things I think I allowed myself to be a victim of earlier in my career. What I learned as I got older is I decide. I decide what it’s like for me, not other people. You can be whatever you’d like to be. You just have to choose it."
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"After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked."
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"I can look back at it now as definitely like an initiation into adulthood. Almost overnight in the NFL, I was put on a pedestal and I was supposed to be this icon or this image of what a professional athlete was supposed to be. I felt like I just got stuck trying to be someone else and I forgot who I actually was."
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"I led the NFL in attempts the past two years and they really didn’t go out and get a quarterback to help me so I knew it’s going to be all on me again. I could see my mortality as a football player, that I’m not going to be able to do this much longer. It just became obvious to me that playing football for me is not going to be fun, not something I’m going to enjoy and it’s time for me to do something different."
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"At the core, we're all spiritual beings."
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"I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time."
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"Human beings aren't supposed to be controlled and told what to do."
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"One of my biggest problems is that I'm always so influenced by what other people are thinking about me."
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"I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all."
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"Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real."
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"If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right."
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"I am more mature. I'm a better football player. I just feel like this is my time."
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"I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out."
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