Benjamin Watson Quotes

On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Something I always try to practice is be anxious for nothing, but let your request be known to God.

I hold onto the Scripture that says, 'Be anxious for nothing, but in all things give thanks.' I'm not saying I don't have problems or that I don't worry, but I try not to be stressed. I manage my anxiety through prayer. Worry shows up on your face, and I don't want that!

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

Sometimes I'll go down a path, and I'll just pray that something's going to come to get me out of this path that I'm on.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

When there are challenges like there were up to and after Daytona in 2001, you remind yourself it will one day make sense why everything happens the way it does. You may not figure it out now on this earth, but in heaven, it will all make sense.

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

From watching the draft and following the NFL closely, anything can happen in the draft. But to me, it's not where I get drafted that matters to me, to be completely honest.

God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

Lord help me to begin to begin.