Johnny manziel news articles

— -- Former quarterback Johnny Manziel said he hopes to return to the National Football League following what he calls his "huge downfall," and opened up about how he has turned his life around since the Cleveland Browns cut him for off-the-field controversy.

"I had a sense of entitlement about what I had accomplished at the age," Manziel, a former college football phenom, said in an exclusive interview with ABC News' T.J.

Holmes.

"For a while I got so ingrained, caring only about what Johnny wanted, only caring what mattered to me, what made me happy," he added. "When I look back at it now, even when I thought I was doing what I wanted, I was miserable."

The first freshman to ever win a Heisman Trophy, Manziel added that he saw how his lifestyle of partying and drinking was affecting those close to him.

He said his mother "just br