35 Quotes by Brian Banks

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.

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.

I can hold on to that, that bitterness and that anger. It won't get me anywhere.

For me, I just want to be positive.

I have to share my story. Not for me, but for the people who might go through the same thing and for juveniles who have gotten in trouble.

To make a 53-man roster would be a huge accomplishment - right up there with getting exonerated for a crime I didn't commit.

I had a good upbringing.

I studied and grew as a man so that the situation of being wrongly accused wouldn't define me.

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.