“You’ll never see the follow-up stories about lottery winners. Why? Because then you would see that, in nine cases out of ten, all that money destroys people’s lives. People see what’s on the outside, and guys like myself make it look so wonderful and so desirable, and the average person doesn’t even realize that it’s all just a facade. It’s a mirage, a myth we created, while on the inside we may be torn apart and dying of emotional starvation.

I sometimes think of it like an actor coming onto the set in some ratty old studio. His life may be terrible, and everything around him in his real life is filthy and dirty, but he comes out into the lights and somebody says, ‘Action!’ What the public sees is all smiles and enthusiasm and happiness, but then, when the lights go off, it’s just another broken down person who spends every waking hour in a living hell.” -Deion Sanders