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For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

Parents realize their wealth should be used for social good rather than children's good.

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

When you have a kid, money matters.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.