Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Mullen

Athletes face some of the same issues any student deals with: academics, family and personal issues, career or educational path changes. Each person has a unique set of circumstances that lead to decisions they make.

Ken Slappy

I understand that (football) is his focus, but he's a good athlete and in basketball you can always use good athletes. He's 6-2 and he's tough. I can put him in the game and he won't be afraid.

Arthur Ashe

Seven out of 10 black faces you see on television are athletes. The black athlete carries the image of the black community. He carries the cross, in a way, until blacks make inroads in other dimensions.

Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Edwin Moses

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Carson Palmer

So many people get caught up in being a pro athlete and think they are better. I don't feel like I've ever changed or acted any differently because of the situation I'm in or that status I have.

Barry Zito

I can relate to anyone. I can hang out with stoners, skaters, surfers, stockbrokers, lawyers, athletes, rappers. I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

Derrick Rose

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

Dave Peterson

We had a very encouraging effort from many of our athletes for the first outdoor meet.

Liz Nichols

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Mike Bellotti

Dennis is by far the better athlete. Brady has a gamesmanship, a sense of poise, that it's hard to not want to have him in there sometimes. They do a nice job, a great job, of supporting each other, providing a spark for the team, and bringing some different things to the table.

Greg Kaatz

Sam's just a great athlete, and a competitor. We're not sure how much we're really going to use him on the mound, but he wanted a chance to get some innings and got it done.

Jared Lorenzen

Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he was I know he had to have been hurting, but to get the ball down there 50 yards over the top of the safety for a touchdown, that's Eli. You're going to start expecting those out of him. He's a great athlete.

Mike Turpin

The season wasn't as fun as I thought it would be. There are a lot of things in athletics that make coaching difficult.

Tom Lamb

First of all, Nick is a terrific natural athlete. We figured he would be a good quarterback because he is a star pitcher on the baseball team. But we still weren't sure what to expect because Nick had never played the position before.

Alec Gunn

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Dale Mabrey

(Benson) gave us a big lift. He's a great athlete. He's really started to blossom.

Craig Frederick

Corey's not a real great athlete. But he's a pretty good wrestler.

Rene Portland

We had so many walks. I haven't seen that many walks since I coached a grade school team when I started coaching.

Brad Barton

He's quite a young man and in all of my years, I've never coached a better point guard.

Bill Clarke

I think it is a great experience to be able to go and represent your school and your program. I have been in a position that I coached in the North-South game, the Alabama-Mississippi game and the juniors game last season. I know what it is like to be in a game like this.

Renee Fleming

He coached and prepared me for a 'Rosenkavalier' scenes program,

Del Harris

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who doesn't have a ring. My key point is that none of the teams he's coached were good enough to win the whole thing. But did he get the most out of them that you could? Yes.

Bill Chavis

That's the fastest time of any runner I've ever coached down in Danville.

Bill Parcells

I just coach the way I was coached when I was young, in my formative years. I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Rohan Verplank

James just stomped it and smoked everyone again.

Pryce Underwood

I thought we couldn't win without James in there. He is our big guy, and we were a little out of sync without him.

John Heard

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Ursula Andress

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Orlando Bloom

I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

Brandon Roy

It would have been really special if he had come here. We would have been really good.

Christian Maraker

They all feel great. This one is special in its own way.

Charles Miller

This is special and different from everything we've done before. We don't know how much we'll be getting or how it will be dispersed.

Melanie Sloan

That, to me, would be special treatment that he doesn't really deserve.

Dennis Crowley

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Charles Bukowski

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

Geno Auriemma

There?s something special about those people. I could go on forever.

Chris Schick

There's something special about him. He can hit.