Christen Press Quotes

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

We all play football to get money.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.

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.

As a child, I wanted to be an athlete, a professional tennis player or something like that.

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point.

Sports life is very short.

I've always wanted to be a top footballer since I was young.

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.

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

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

We have all the money in the world but do not realise how important the body is. A player on average has a seven year professional career, 10-15 if everything goes right. You have to do everything possible to be at your maximum.

I play for my passion. I could care less about first-round money to seventh-round money.

I told myself coming into the league that if I could play for six or seven years, that would have been a great career.

I think as a professional sportsman you're aware that your time is limited.

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

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

Anyone who plays professional sport for a living is extremely lucky, and that's my overriding feeling - I believe I have the best job in the world!

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

I'm trying to be a franchise player one day.

Hopefully I can play until I'm 40.

I was 18, I wanted to be a first-year pro.

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.