It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

It has all happened so quickly, but it's exciting, I just wanna get back to playing football you know.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot.

I wish you guys would just say, 'Michael Sam, how's the football going? How's training going?' But it is what it is. And I just wish you guys would see me as Michael Sam the football player instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.

The most worthwhile things in life rarely come easy, this is a lesson I've always known. The journey continues.

I'm Michael Sam, I'm a football player, and I'm gay.