Things( on the field) have slowed down for me a little bit, i was on the same page with the guys up front. Looking back, I took too many shots. I have to get some completions and get into a rhythm.

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I grew up knowing a lot about LSU watching them on TV. They were always on TVI had a bunch of friends and family at LSU. It's a cool stadium. I never got to go to it. I heard it's really a special place. It's a big place. It's intimidating. It's loud. We have to play really good there. I'm looking forward to playing there.

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The Heisman attention has definitely been a little bit of a surprise. It's been out of my hands. It's something I'm not focused on. I'm focused on the season and trying to win as many games as possible.

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For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.

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I'm growing up and continuing to learn from my mistakes and trying not to make the same ones over and over again, but am I going to live in a shell, or am I just going to hide from everybody and not do anything? I don't think that's the way I should live my life, and I'm not going to do it.

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The thing thats caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - thats something I really havent grasped the whole entirety of yet.

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I still see myself as young, the same guy I was before I ever won the Heisman. Hopefully my friends still feel I'm the same way. I just want people to know I'm still the same person I've always been.

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I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.

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It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

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It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you... by Johnny Manziel

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

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I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas. by Johnny Manziel

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

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I don't see myself as Johnny Football. by Johnny Manziel

I don't see myself as Johnny Football.

At the end of the day, when you’re left staring at the ceiling by yourself and you’re back in that depression and back in that hole, that dark hole of sitting in a room by yourself, being super depressed, thinking about all the mistakes you’ve made in your life. Where did that get me? Where did that get me beside out of the NFL? Where did that get me? Disgraced?

I’m hoping to take care of the issues in front of me right now so I can focus on what I have to do if I want to play in 2016, i also continue to be thankful to those who really know me and support me.

I take full responsibility for my actions, and it's my intention to work very hard to regain everyone's trust and respect, i understand that will take time and will only happen through what I do and not what I say.