Brian Banks

It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash that changes your life. For other people, it could take five years of going to prison for them to realize they need change in their life. So it's not really the experience but more how the experience affects you. ”

There's just so much I want to do in life. Part of that is to use my story and use my experiences to give back to other people. ”

From the perspective of everything I went through to have played in four NFL games, it was one of the best experiences of my life. ”

If my story can help someone to better themselves in life, then so be it. ”

To be stripped of your freedom, to be stripped of your dignity and the respect you once had, to lose it all and then see life pass you by while you're sitting inside a prison cell, to wake up one day and get it all back - it's a very humbling feeling. ”

Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me - something I thought I'd never be able to do again. ”

The biggest thing you must remember is the mindset you have - what were the initial things you said to yourself as a young kid? Everything you said, that's who you are. ”

If I can be some kind of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up. ”

For me, I just want to be positive. ”

If the NFL is going to be responsible for what someone is doing in their personal life, there may need to be preventative work early against the incidents that are happening. ”