Has there ever been an athlete more confident than Deion Sanders? That was a rhetorical question. The answer is obviously no. The dude’s nickname was “prime time,” which remains the coolest nickname in sports history.

Anyway, here’s how confident a 22-year-old Sanders was: He told the New York Giants, who owned a top-10 pick in the 1989 NFL draft, that he didn’t have time for their games during a pre-draft meeting at the NFL combine.

We’ll let Deion tell the story…

“I was in the Giants room … they sat me down and gave me a thick book — thicker than a phone book. I said ‘What is this?’ They said, ‘This is our test we give all the players.’ I said, ‘Excuse me, what pick do you have in the draft?’ They said, ’10th pick.’ I said, ‘I’ll be gone before then; I ain’t got time for this.’ And I left.”

Sanders was correct. The Atlanta Falcons took him with the fifth-overall pick, so taking that test would have been a complete waste a time. But who knows? Maybe the Giants are so impressed with the results, they trade up and take him with a higher pick. New York did end up winning a Super Bowl two years later, so maybe Sanders is the one who missed out here.