Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Stern

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

It was terrific. You're out there with the best athletes in the world, and they are hitting the ball as hard as they can.

It was such a beautiful day. The 18 athletes who went had a great experience, since we hadn't seen a track yet. It was spring break, so 18 is about half of them, so that was great. We went down there a day early to practice.

Kaylin Richardson

It was awesome, everything I ever imagined. It's just so cool representing your country and meeting other athletes and being able to say, 'I'm an Olympian!' for the rest of my life.

It will be a fun show, as well as a good thing for our athletes to have people cheering them on from the stands. It usually includes fireworks, entertainment and the law enforcement torch run. We invite the public to come and just watch Friday and Saturday.

Tom Izzo

It's back to the drawing board on defense. We have good enough athletes and good enough players to get it done. But they're going to be coached harder in the next three-and-a-half days.

It's a completely different deal with them. St. Edward's is going to come in here with a lot of athletes and pressure you the whole time. It's a little different ballgame.

It's a continuous program that is run all year round. Pat O'Toole is always training the athletes in nutrition and safe training.

Joe Glenn

It's a combination of them having a great pass rush with great athletes and their coverage. We were covered. They spread the net, they played a real soft zone on us, and we just weren't able to get open.

It's a bond we have. A lot of us played youth league football together, and some of the best athletes in the state come from here.

Troy Vincent

It's about teaching life skills and easing the transition after graduation. Not all athletes are going pro-in fact, very few are, ... But even being a professional athlete doesn't define you as a person ... It doesn't define who you are as a male or female, athlete or non-athlete at the collegiate level or in the real world.

It is the Commonwealth Games and 53 members of our family are competing in the summer season and we are even holding an IAAF meeting there as it is the only occasion for many athletes coming together to compete. (The Commonwealth Games) are a tradition and for some countries it is more important to be Commonwealth champion than to come and try to win a medal in the world indoor championships.

It's a great honor to be included with all these other great athletes in the Hall of Fame, and it's also a real treat to join my daughter Kristin (a member of the inaugural Stoneham Athletic Hall of Fame Class) as an inductee.

It's a fact of life that dancers, like the athletes they are, suffer injuries and must eventually retire. We have been so lucky to have them here these last few years.

Jerramy Stevens

It's kind of the in-vogue position right now. There are a lot of great athletes coming out of college and trying to get recognized.

It's good for everybody. There's a general feeling that we're all working together as a department and when a fellow student-athlete or fellow coach has success, it motivates all of us. There's a camaraderie between the athletes and coaches.

It shows how hard our athletes are willing to work under those conditions. Our kids continue to work hard and they're showing improvement.

It shouldn't be about winning. What's important is coming here, to a fantastic event that brings together great athletes from all over the world, and taking in the experience. That's what I hope to take from this.

It?s become very competitive. There are qualifying standards and each school can only enter two athletes per event.

Clint Hurdle

It's been a little rock in our shoe. We'll work it out. We ran the bases outstanding all spring. For whatever reason we've made some mistakes on the bases. We'll get it tightened up. We've got the athletes to do it.

It's great for our program. When you visit the Hall of Fame and see all the sports and great athletes in there, it's great that men's soccer is now in there. It will open the door for more players to get nominated.

It's quite a split we have on boths sides, ... But they're all great athletes and we'll have some fun this year and some success.

It starts with the diversity of their football team. They have great athletes at every position. They present a lot of problems. They are especially explosive, very difficult to deal with.

It's like a preparation for war. It literally is. We're conditioned as athletes to recognize the culmination of our season. Here it is. You have to change your attitude as you go into the playoffs, change your mentality, change how you go about every day. As a player, you basically have to extend yourself past your normal boundaries, because once you're done, you're done. You see the finish line.

Kerri Walsh

It's a lot of fun going to these things because you get to see a lot of the other athletes and people from the city. The day we won the medal, we went to the Sports Illustrated party because it's the party to go to.

In Salt Lake City, we had a wonderful opportunity to participate on our home soil. We had a home crowd and a friendly environment. We were in the same time zone or similar time zone to where the athletes trained. You're eating home-cooked meals with friends and family. And I think familiarity with the venues helped as well.

I noticed it traveling with our team. We?re the only team that has coaches from three other countries and athletes that are all different in terms of our diversity. Look at our team as a whole. It is the United States. . . . It?s a melting pot.

I'm very pleased with our recruiting class. We've got some really quality athletes in this group.

I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we've been and the direction that we're heading in. Today has been a great accomplishment for our athletes and the school.

I'm very proud of the way our athletes competed tonight. All three of them came out and basically hit on every event.

Jay Thomas

I'm very excited about this class. We have a lot of athletes in this class. We've got good solid kids. We needed to fill some holes particularly on the defensive side and the defensive back field.

I'm hoping that it's more of a defensive game. They're a very explosive team. They've got good athletes coming back, and that's what makes them very dangerous.

In the opening parade the athletes carried all their equipment. So you have people dragging their teammates in a bobsled and people carrying their skis and their hockey sticks.