Pat McAfee Quotes

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.

I don't know if I could have made it as an NBA player. But I knew I could make it as a coach.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.

When you have a son in football like Anton, it will always be deemed as if he got the prop up and given the contract, no matter how hard he works. So much so that when he was offered a deal at Chelsea, I advised him not to take a professional contract.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

Any team that wants to draft me is a blessing to me.

I got to play first-team men's football from a young age.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.

I was lucky to get a professional contract. I wasn't that sort of talent that is considered to be a professional player.

I was honestly more talented in soccer than in basketball. I don't think I'd have gone anywhere in soccer. But I think I was more talented in soccer.

I worked my whole life and dreamed my whole life of being a professional athlete.

I've been with five teams, played for a bunch of different coaches.

At 14 I was the fastest runner in Denmark. I was nearly a professional goalkeeper. I could have been the rival of Peter Schmeichel.

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.