Ryan Leaf Quotes

It has been my dream since I was just a little kid to play in the NFL ... I can't tell you how excited I am for this dream to come true.

All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

I feel very good and positive about my future. I look forward to seeing the fans and doing what I do.

But I haven't met a player or a coach whose goal isn't to win the Super Bowl.

My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there's a chance that might not happen, either.

I do feel grateful, and I love what I'm doing, and I'm happy, and I'm living in the moment, but I also have my eye on the long game and the big prize, and that is just to make this a life-long career. To make a big enough impact on everybody to stick around for a long time.

I want to make Pro Bowls, do all the great things.

I'm just happy and blessed to have the opportunity to go to the NFL.

I think every kid who wants to play in the NFL has a dream of hoisting that Lombardi. It's what we all strive for, and it's the end goal for every team.

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have some setbacks and your circumstances may change, but don't let that change your mind. Keep it set on happiness.

Playing Sheldon is just heaven for me. I realize how enormously lucky I am to play a role that makes me so incredibly happy. As I told Chuck Lorre in a Christmas card a few years ago, I'm living a version of the dream.

The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.

This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I'm the luckiest person in the world.

In all honesty, I have a few irons in the fire in the TV world, but mostly, I'm working on having the most amazing life I can possibly have, and hopefully my career will come along for the ride.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

In my ninety-plus years, I have learned a secret. I have learned that when good men and good women face challenges with optimism, things will always work out! Truly, things always work out! Despite how difficult circumstances may look at the moment, those who have faith and move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

I'm 17 years old and there are many great things ahead. If I don't win the U.S. Open this year, it's not going to be a disaster in my life.

The key to happiness is achievable dreams.

Well you always want to play against the best. That's what you're going to get in the Super Bowl. To go against guys like Peyton Manning and Tom Brady who I have tons of respect for; I watch their games, I study their games, I try to learn from them. It gets you excited, but hopefully not too excited. Just focus on the game. Then when my career is done then I can look back at it.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Remember: Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for pizza delivery - so no matter what happens in the game, Peyton Manning wins.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.