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.

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.

Pete Lembo

At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.

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's good for the school. Sports helps schools get recognition nationally, especially if the team has a successful season. Athletics brings the press.

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.

The mistake is once a student-athlete, always a student-athlete. So you can't receive any funds or any goods once you graduate. I really believe it was a misinterpretation. I don't think it was an attempt to gain any advantages.

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.

They're too athletic for us to play them man. You have to hope they don't keep hitting those shots. They did, but we got lucky to be able to go out on that little run and make them play catch-up.

They're the No. 1 seed and the best team in the Metro Athletic Conference. We have our work cut out, but our kids are excited about the opportunity.

They're the most athletic team we've played. We just didn't make a play when we needed to.

Kevin Cameron

They're the most athletic team we've ever played against. My hat's off to them.

They're the most athletic team in the country.

They've got a real good athletic team, they are well coached, Kelley Hall does a good job, he's been in this business for a long time.

They threw it toward our best athlete. He made a play. That's just awesome.

They said I could be both (coach and athletic director), but I didn't think I could give 100 percent to each job. And the timing seemed to be right. I was feeling a little tired and I was ready for a break.

They're way more athletic than we are, I'm sure everyone knows that. We don't have a lot of depth, but our kids played hard and did what they had to do to win the game. They just couldn't convert their shots. You won't win many games scoring 31 points.

They're very strong. They're a confident, skilful athletic team. They've got just about everything you'd want.

They?re very athletic so we have to make sure we score a lot of points. Somehow we need to defend and keep them in the 60s somewhere and try to outscore them. They?re an offensive team, and they will present a lot of problems for us.

They're very athletic and very quick. I think if we show up and play our game and dictate the pace we'll be OK.

They're very athletic and very offensive-minded; everybody on that team's looking for a shot. I think the difference will be great team defense. They're going to run into our team, which will limit how quickly they can get a shot. They're expecting 90 points, but more realistically, the game should be in the 60s.

They're very athletic and they shut down some of the things we wanted to do and we struggled offensively. We have struggled the last couple of games. It's not so much not getting what we want, it's just that we can't finish. That's not always with the shot that's with the pass sometimes.