To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

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

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

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.

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.