Steven Knight Quotes

I try not to and I don't think I ever have just jumped at any opportunity because a company wanted me. Just because there was money on the table doesn't mean that I took it.

I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.

I received an offer from China: I would've earned an incredible sum. But Napoli didn't want me to go, and I wanted to stay. So nothing came of it.

Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead.

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

If I hadn't had a childhood career, I probably would've signed a contract with the first person I came across.

Maybe I thought too much about picking up the money and not enough about the really good parts.

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

There are certain TV shows that probably would have made me rich, and there are certain commitments I could have made that probably would have raised a lot of eyebrows that I didn't. But I don't look back at those decisions and say, 'Oh God, I'm such an idiot.'

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.

Money is a short-term result that incentivizes short-term decision making.

Bargaining chips that you never get to spend are not worth anything

The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn't take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, 'Well, if they're offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.'

That's the principal guiding feature of all interviews today is money.

I had to decide between doing 'Issaq' and continuing school and I chose 'Issaq.'

It stinks to give up a good player. But if you think that way, you'll never make any trades. You have to focus on what you're getting back.

Money is killing football: people are making their decisions based on money.

It's true that I had two different offers from Chinese football, but I stayed in England in order to give myself the opportunity. To go there would have been the easiest way, because it was a great offer, but I wanted to stay.

I saw Spurs as being a very good fit for me - but we were unable to agree financial terms with them... With hindsight, though, that was not a disaster.

Money is not the driving force behind my decisions to accept or reject a project.

I ended up signing for IndyCar and it was a good decision. I should have waited another 10 days to actually talk to all of the teams, because I just went in, boom, I got the first offer and I said OK I'm racing. It's almost like it was the girlfriend just gives you a no and then you just get the next one that gives you a yes.