"Yet Tillman turned down a three-year, $3 .6 million contract with the Cardinals to enlist."

"Yet there were still many unanswered questions and conflicting accounts concerning the circumstances surrounding his death."

"Sports embodied many of the qualities I deem meaningful," he said in 2002. "However, these last few years, and especially after recent events, I've come to appreciate just how shallow and insignificant my role is . . . It's no longer important."

"Patrick Daniel Tillman." Bio. A&E Television Networks, 2014. Web. 27 May 2014.