"Leading up to this point I've seen guys - for nine years I've seen guys - leave there, teary-eyed, crying, not knowing what they're going to do. Have no idea what to do and just like torn down and bitter about it," he said. "My response to it -- and I've always told myself I'm going to be one of those guys one of these years, it's going to tear me up when they release me -- and when he said they was releasing me, it didn't do any of that."