Clay Matthews III Quotes

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

If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life.

Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

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.

I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.

I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my stay here as 13 years of postgraduate work; I think I'm ready for the world.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was the WB. My age was perfect for it, but I just never came across as a youngster. I had to grow into my age in order to start working, and by the time I did, it was when things started to get good.

It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

After college, I never really knew what I wanted to do, so that's why I got into professional wrestling.

I had a lot of different jobs.

I try to keep my own career in check, but when I came to America there were very few people wrestling.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

I have had so many gaps that I have not been consistently working, and the thing is that you get better with more work.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

I've never really had a real job. When I was young doing stand-up, I'd get 50 bucks a week here or 100 bucks a week there. You know, sometimes for headlining one of the rooms, or MC-ing, or something like that. So yeah, I've never had like a normal job.

I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL.

It's been a dream of mine to play in the NFL, so whenever I hear my name being talked about in someone's mock draft or whether or not he should stay or go, it's always interesting to listen to, but at the same time, I don't take it for granted.

Being a part of the NFL for 30 years was a blessing.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.