Kevin Knox Quotes

I always wanted to play in the NFL. I decided to go to Florida State University as my college to play football because the coach there - Bobby Bowden - had a pedigree and acumen for putting players into the league.

I think every person who gets a football scholarship thinks the potential for great success in college - and maybe even a career in the NFL - is possible.

I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.

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

I sat behind Thurman Thomas for my first couple of years, then my first year starting I won the Heisman. After I won the Heisman, that's when things changed as far as going to the NFL.

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.'

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.

I went to Florida State for college. Then I went to Oxford in England for a master's degree. I was drafted by the Titans and was with them for two years, and then one year in Pittsburgh with the Steelers.

The NFL - that's my No. 1 goal. That's what I want to do.

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.

I wanted to be in the situation where I could have a chance to go to the NFL and be a great quarterback and take care of my family.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

I've done everything I can at the University of Washington... I know I'm ready for the NFL.

I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.

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.

We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

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.

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.'

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.

When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

You want to be drafted high, but to be drafted high into an organization like the Kansas City Chiefs, it's like a dream to me.

Believe it or not, my goal was always to play in the NFL.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.