Brian Banks Quotes

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

Regardless of any thing that I've done that people might think, 'Oh, well, that deserved a scarlet letter,' that's not how it works.

Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

He that does evil hates the light.

Nothing is burdensome as a secret.

I could not shake the feeling that I was bad and not to be trusted and that is why I am imprisoned here.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

Woe to those who die in mortal sin!

I've always been fascinated with what motivates people's transgressions and the scandalous journey into infamy.

You have people there from all walks of life: people who made mistakes and have to deal with the consequences, mothers and fathers. You wouldn't expect them to be behind bars.