Famous Quotes & Sayings

I usually am the first one to lose it. As an athlete, if you could stop time for a moment it would be when you're getting a medal and when you hear your national anthem.

Sometimes when you see a very athletic player, they're not as developed technically. But she's very developed technically. We just look to the future of what she's going to be like as a senior. But right now we're excited where she is as a freshman.

Tech is very athletic in the secondary. They do play more man coverage than we'll see all year, so the challenge has been set to our receivers as far as them stepping up and making the plays to get our offense rolling.

Tennessee's (offensive line) was big and athletic and we came out and played them pretty good. We were a couple of mistakes from beating the crap out of them. We were a couple of missed assignments from beating them pretty bad. The funny thing is we're going to get better and better. The way our defense has played the last four weeks, anything is possible. It could be a blowout or just a regular victory.

Mark Richt

Sometimes people think there is not enough support for college athletics without the beer industry, maybe. I don't know if that is true. There would be other sponsors that would be excited about uniting with college football.

Tom Izzo

Sometimes I see things he can do, and I do shake my head. He's very, very athletic for a big kid and he's a very intelligent player. But when you start your career, you can get labeled, whether you're labeled soft or whatever. I've been hard on him, but in the big games, he has shined.

Royce (Rowe) did an unbelievable job guarding him on that play. He went for the first fake, had to gather himself and go laterally to his left to get back in his face and he did it. That was a great athletic play.

Rutgers Prep is much bigger than us. They are also very athletic and talented. If we meet them again, we'll have to find ways to combat that.

Ryan was a triple threat for us. He could run, pass, and kick. He was a great receiver as a junior and a very athletic quarterback. He threw well over 100 passes for us and never got picked off. Ryan was a competitive kid who had a great high school career.

Ryan just looks more athletic and throws a sharper ball. That year of playing really helped him.

Pretty much everybody knows that they are probably playing for second. They have such an unfair advantage. They can recruit and golf with professional instructors. Until they (the Florida High School Athletic Association) do something about this, we know we are going to playing for second.

President Geoffroy is committed to having a first-class, highly successful athletic program, as I am. But we also have a fan base that clearly supports that goal and wants us to do what is necessary to make that happen. That is what begins now.

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.

I've never seen so many long runs on kickoffs. Darrell Blackman is an awfully good athlete.

Mark Prior

I've represented the country twice and played on two USA teams. It's a great experience, it's an awesome experience. You can't describe it from an athletic standpoint.

Sasha Cohen

It was very difficult. I wasn't coming back with an easy jump, with the triple loop, which I also slammed in the warm-up. I was able to believe when everything was dark and gray. The music carried me through. It goes beyond an athletic event, goes to emotional experience.

It was very clear we needed to establish public trust, and we were committed to a viable football and athletic program from top to bottom.

It was very, very difficult for a program that was so competitive at the national level to look like it was going toward extinction. The lifeblood of a Division III program is having kids. We don't have athletic scholarships where you can replace players very easily. When those numbers dwindle down, you start worrying about whether you can field a team.

Dorell Wright

It was all big-name guys, and I wasn't in there getting killed or demolished or anything like that. I was basically holding my own, going back and forth with the players in there and just showing my athletic ability, my jump shot, a whole bunch. I was just showing my all-around game.

It was all about the fact that they were all very athletic and understood their role. They didn't just block shots and take up space in the defensive scheme.

It was a challenging move and not everyone was on board with it. But you look at all the interest throughout the country in this win over Wisconsin. You cannot put a price on that exposure for the athletic program and the university.

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

The selection of Coach Paterno as the 2005 Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year was an easy and unanimous decision. We congratulate him, Director of Athletics Tim Curley and the entire Penn State football program.

A year old and older, then we can test the dog and know exactly what we're getting - the temperament of the dog, athletic ability, size, everything. When you try to raise a puppy, we don't really know what we have until he's about a year old.

Scott Skiles

Banks speeds up the tempo a little bit. He can really push it and create a lot of problems. Davis is a great scorer and a great athletic wing player.

Doug Pederson

Backups don't get a lot of praise or glory, but you get to that spot by working hard. He comes from a line of quarterbacks and an athletic family. It's bred in him and he's a sharp kid.

A wonderful, athletic talent, who is a nationally touted goalkeeper, Lauren brings great shot-stopping ability, a strong tactical understanding of the game, and overwhelming courage and tenacity. She will immediately compete for time in the net.

Athletics were an every day part of me and they were fun. It was natural for me to want to play in college.

Athletics means more than just winning games. We want our players be productive in society and to gain a sense of the things that are going on in the world today.

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.

Athletics has found that when on the road, the other institutions drop 'college' or change it to 'university' on their own.

Athletics gives us visibility and creates part of the excitement of the campus and makes Nebraska what Nebraska is, ... That, I'm sure, helps enrollment over the long term. But I don't think whether we win or lose a game directly (affects) whether enrollment goes up or down.

Athletics are a funny thing. As players, you have choices. We made a choice (Saturday), last night we didn't.