Ryan Leaf Quotes

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.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I'm very proud of 'The Office' - it was one of the best things I'll ever do. But you do become a slight victim of your own success in the sense that people think that's you, that's what you are, and that's what you'll play forever.

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.

When work is not going well, it's useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers - and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

How you define yourself is a major issue for young people and adults alike.

A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.

You don't need to be defined by your job.

I see that people now recognize me in the street. But it doesn't change me in the depth of my being.

I view myself as more than a running back.

Tennis is great, but it doesn't necessarily define me.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.

I'd like to be known as something more than a girl who goes to lunch with her girl friends and goes shopping.

My life is bigger than basketball.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

I have no issues with my identity.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry Fonda's son. Unfortunately for them, they never got to know me.