Josh Allen Quotes

It was a very long and hard decision. My dad kept telling me, 'You can always go to college, but you can't always go pro.' That made sense to me.

My family and I took visits to each and every school and listened to each coaching staff. I felt the most comfortable with and really excited about playing at SC. Being close to home in one of the best offensive systems is paying off now as I'm making the jump to the pros.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'

On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and really focusing on my music career.

Basketball is my main sport, which I got a lot of scholarships through, but I chose modeling over basketball, though.

Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.

The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.

I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.

When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I was a wide receiver at the University of Missouri but dropped out, having never gotten in a game.

I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.

I wanted to pursue my passion for cricket, but after school, I got into an engineering college.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

My dream was to play football at Notre Dame more than anything.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'