"As much as we may seem superhuman in the sense of being able to play a professional sport, we are human," said Garcia, the quarterbacks coach for the Canadian Football League's Montreal Alouettes. "We are affected by what people say and think, and as much as you have to be thick-skinned and avoid a lot of that negativity, it's difficult to do. You can't help but feel at times, especially when things aren't going well, that you want to avoid everybody. You want to shelter yourself. You want to hide indoors.