Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Bo Ryan

The thing we didn't want to have happen happened. You can't play from behind. It's very difficult. We are not as athletic or quick enough to play from behind.

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.

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.

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

This is a significant step in the development of the Seahawk athletic program. It's also an intermediate step toward moving to Division I in the future, which is our ultimate goal.

The university does a great deal of communication with students about what is expected on game day. This is a collaborative effort with the athletic department. No one office has the responsibility for controlling student drinking.

That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that.

That's just part of being a professional athlete,

That only becomes an issue if the athletic director makes it an issue. You squash that very easily if you get support from your athletic department.

Jalen Rose

That number won't haunt this club. They did a nice job of running. They had 36 points on the break. Having played in Denver, I understand how they feed off the altitude. When they get a long rebound, Anthony is taking off. They throw the touchdown pass to him and he's athletic and is a very good finisher.

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

All any coach wants is to have the team play their best basketball at the end of the year. This group played as hard as they possibly could. Wilby was just a little more athletic than us. In a game like this, it came down to a couple of buckets.

A lineman's average weight when I played football was around 262 pounds. Today the average is 342 pounds. The players are less athletic which is an intense health risk - especially during hot weather.

You're trying harder and harder, when less is more, really. I kept telling him that. The harder you try, the more you're 'amped up' and flexed, which takes away from your athletic ability. Now, he realizes he doesn't have to throw over 90 mph for his changeup to be effective.

You've really got to wonder if it wasn't for Bobby as the athletic director, what would have happened. I don't know if I would be here today, and I don't know if Rice athletics would be here today if it wasn't for Bobby May.

Tommy Tuberville

You've just got to do your best and don't look back. I never do. I think it made Auburn a better place. Not just football, the entire campus. I hated going through something like that, but after it's all said and done, it was maybe the best thing to ever happen to me, our coaches, this football program, and this athletic program. I don't think there's any doubt that people can look and say that Auburn is better than it was a couple of years ago.

You've got two fine programs with so much athletic ability, and the personnel in this gym is just unbelievable. You've got some great players who were just dropping (to the floor) for everything here. This was like a major tournament.

You see a lot of great tight ends come out of here because we use the tight end a lot. I think you can look for the same this year, especially with Greg. Big, strong, fast and athletic tight end. Definitely going to be a great target for me, especially when I get in trouble.

Clark Kellogg

You're dealing with a short window of time. Everything is magnified because of the immediacy of athletic competition. The games are documented and talked about. It makes it a lot harder to work through any bumps that you might have. I think there has to be give and take on both sides.

You're aware that at any given moment they can change the face of a game by returning a punt. They're fast and athletic and with a slight mistake they can make you pay.

This is by far the most athletic team we've seen this year. Pisgah's a good team and they have as much size as Forest Hills, but they're not nearly as athletic.

Credit their defense. They really stepped up. They are quick, athletic and physical. We've got to fight through that and adjust. We were turning the ball over even before we could get it in to (Thompson).

Early on, we had a real difficult time attacking their defense. We were standing around. We just didn't attack them. We were standing around waiting for things to happen. They're athletic and they're long and we were leaving our guards out to dry. We changed things a bit and we started getting more aggressive.

John Scott

Drew has the physical skills to contribute early in his college career. An athletic kid with very good strength, he impressed our staff with his physical play and aggressiveness at a summer team camp last year.

Eunice is one of the most athletic players I have worked with. She loves to compete and figure out a way to defeat her opponent.

During the search ..I had the opportunity to interview some outstanding candidates that reinforced my belief that Penn is a special university with a great basketball legacy. I heard from scores of university presidents, athletic directors and basketball coaches, and the unanimous opinion is that Glen is a person of integrity, sincerity and uncommon coaching acumen. It?s a pleasure to welcome him to the Penn athletics family.

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.

Bela Karolyi

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.

We currently have three former students at Bethel College who are on the Dean's List. We have six or seven students who are in the military and two students who just recently received athletic scholarships.

Both of those guys are athletic and quick and can move in the pocket. I think Cam has the stronger arm, and I think Joe is more athletic. But you could take either one and still have a good quarterback. Whoever we start is going to be great, and whoever is going to be the backup is going to be great.

Both have good speed and they've got athleticism and they've been able to get bigger and stronger. They're not as physical as George (Peterson), but they're as athletic or a little more so. But they're not as powerful. That's an issue.