Stone Cold Steve Austin Quotes

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I've had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

I didn't have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn't help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

I've given it all from my combine to my pro day to my meetings with teams.

The NFL has been good to me.

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.

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

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

As long as I feel the love of the game and my health is good, I'm going to play. I don't want to be one of these guys who stays too long or regrets leaving early. Football has been great to me.

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.

I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else.

God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God has given me a right arm, and for some reason, even though I'm 5'11", to be able to make the throws and make great decisions on the field and all that.

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.

Everybody who knows anything about me knows all I ever wanted to do is play pro football. But I didn't have the talent, and I got hurt a lot. I'd do anything to be out on the field.

For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

I don't feel I could've played major league baseball.

I wanted to be a second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. Problem is that my athletic abilities in my mind are greater than what my body can accomplish.

I think, at 32, you are past your prime as a footballer.

There's the hardest thing - when you cannot be as athletic or perform at a level you really want to. Your mind is telling you, but your body is not allowing you.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.