Andrew Benintendi Quotes

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

I'm a footballer; I want a football club.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

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

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.

I wanted to be a pro athlete. I knew that.

My dream is to get to the NBA, obviously. But it will be when the time is right.

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

I knew I was going to be a sportsman.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

I probably realized when I was maybe 13 years of age that I could make a living out of playing professional sport and from that time on it was really a goal for me do that as soon as I can.

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

I was never on a mission to be an NFL quarterback. I wanted to be a good high school player, and I worked hard at that. That made me good enough to play in college and then I wanted to be a good college quarterback. During college I played well enough to make it into the NFL. I never took it for granted and really wanted to play hard at each level and I have always had a lot of fun doing what I wanted to do.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

I've always wanted to be a footballer, and I've always believed that's the path I was going to go down.

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician.

I thought if I could play 10 years in the league, it would be a great career more than I could ever hope for in my wildest dreams.

When you're growing up and thinking about being a footballer, you want to make as many caps and play as many games as you can.