Sports Illustrated's cover story on UCLA's Josh Rosen is a fascinating, unvarnished look inside the complicated and interesting head of perhaps the nation's most talented quarterback.

You can read it in its entirety here.

But if you're merely interested in what Rosen has to say -- UCLA limits his exposure to the media -- here are some of his juicier quotes.

On his sometimes controversial social media presence:

"I'm not a social media guy; I'm not," Rosen says. "It's just once every three weeks, it's like, 'Hey, let's shake some s‑‑‑ up.' I like to be a real person and show personality. People appreciate that."

On his inflatable hot tub photos that earned a lot of attention on social media:

"It came down to my roommate and I saying, 'What are we going to be able to tell our kids we did in college?'"

On his desire to be his own person:

"I'm not going to f‑‑‑ing get in trouble for drugs or anything like that, but I don't want to be this crystal-clean guy with perfect responses," Rosen says. "I'm not going to pretend to be 50. I just want to be happy and enjoy the experiences I have and take advantage of every opportunity I've been given."

On reading:

"I hate reading," he says. "But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ."

On having a potential girlfriend:

"I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of," he says. "Girls that I am really good homies with tell me about how often they have to defend my image to girls that don't know me."

On the face of a watch he owns that situates earth in a small place in the wider universe:

"It reminds me to keep everything in perspective," he says. "Even if the whole world goes to s‑‑‑, understand that you are a tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, little instance in a much larger universe and that you should just take things for what they are and move on."

On his junior tennis career and why he gave it up:

"Tennis meant too much for me. It ruined it. So when I play football, I've learned to sort of take things lightly and keep moving. I wouldn't want to lose the sport of football like I lost tennis."

On not getting offered by Stanford, which initially bothered him:

"Probably the best thing that ever happened to me," he says. "I'm not Stanford, and I would have hated it. It was good for me because it killed my ego a little bit."

On going to UCLA instead of a college football superpower:

"I'm not a fan of, like, powerhouses," he says. "I like messing up the system. I'm all about equality and kind of bringing some phoenixes from the fire."

Jim Mora on coaching Rosen:

"He's a challenge," Mora says of Rosen. "But he's a fun challenge, a great challenge and an interesting challenge."