To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

- Manti Te'o

My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'

- Manti Te'o

He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to …

- Manti Te'o

Part of me was saying if you say that she's alive, what would everybody think? What are you going to tell everybody who followed you, who you've insp…

- Manti Te'o

Ever since I was young I understood the whole meaning of life isn't how much money you accumulate, how much fame you experience, it's how many lives …

- Manti Te'o

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's e…

- Manti Te'o

I'm proud of this guy. I really am. And nothing that has happened in the last couple of weeks is gonna take that away. He's not a liar. He's a kid. H…

- Manti Te'o

You never know what kind of impact you can have on someone by just saying hello.

- Manti Te'o

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

- Manti Te'o