Vincent Janssen Quotes

At the start, you don't earn a great deal, so you have to work other jobs if you want to play football. When I was at Doncaster, I couldn't solely do football. I had to work; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to live.

Money is important, but the most important thing for me is to play football, and then I'm happy. OK, you want to earn a good amount of money to be secure, but if I chose money, I would go to Russia and already have a lot more. I like to play football, and that is it.

My dream is to retire as a San Francisco 49er.

When I grew up, my father used to say that cricket is not a profession, cricket cannot bring you food. But I think he lived to see the day when I was actually paid.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

When I graduated from college I didn't want to play in the AFL.

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

The game of football has changed for me. It was a personal goal for me at first. But now it's a way to provide for my family. It's a way to provide for my daughter. I'm just ecstatic that I can do that.

If I have the opportunity to go to the NFL, I'm going to take it.

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

You have to remember that professional football is a job, too, and some people have to get results on the pitch to pay to live.

I was a young boy from Western Australia with a dream to play professional football.

We are getting to the point where, like the men's game, playing football is not only a legitimate career but enables you to live really well and can perhaps even set you up for life. It will allow little girls to tell their mums and dads they want to be professional footballers and not have their dreams dismissed so easily.

Playing in the NFL was a dream come true.

My first goal was to become a professional footballer.

All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

I'm living my dream. I'm in the NFL.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I was lucky enough to play in three Super Bowls and two Arena Bowls.

I went to play in the NFL.

There are a lot of things that people love, they just can't do for a living.

Thanks to football, I live a decent life.

They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.