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

Was it a risky move? Yes, but at that moment, the reason why I came out is I thought it wasn't going to be a big deal. Maybe I was naive. Maybe I thought it was 2014, and people will understand that there's gay NFL players. There's gay athletes everywhere. But I was clearly wrong. It was a huge deal.

But I will never say anything about who they are, what teams they are on. I'm just saying there's some famous people, and I'm not the only one.

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.

I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.

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.