Famous Quotes & Sayings

What this group of seniors has accomplished in this athletic program is ridiculous. They are just fantastic.

What they've done is take the other younger kids under their wings and give them leadership. We're not the most athletic team, but something's working for us.

When we did our due diligence, we did it based upon the thought of putting athletic fields there.

What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.

We would still have athletics at Manual. We would still have basketball at every school.

John Thompson

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

(Worthy) is an athlete. We just have to find a place for him on the field.

We've got big guys on the front line. Me, Jeff and Roy. Jeff and I are athletic and Roy, he's 7-2. So when he gets his hands up, he's eight feet, maybe taller. So that can pose a problem to anyone, if we use it right.

Bill Rodgers

With with these points in mind go forth, enjoy Mother Nature, and celebrate your return to what you're supposed to do, live as an athlete.

We got up by 11; I don't know if we got comfortable or what. We're finding a lot of different ways to lose. We had some turnovers and they are a team that struggles in the half court. If you let them use their athleticism . . . they are pretty good. They did a good job of getting out and running.

We broke it down into indoor facilities and outdoor facilities. The (high school athletic facilities) committee listed what we felt every school needed in priority order.

Bill Halter

We brag when our athletic teams are the top 20 in the country. We need an education team that's in the top 20 as well.

We are getting more balanced. We are not having to rely on one or two people to win. We are more athletic than we were before.

Byron Scott

We're excited. We bring in another athlete, a 7-foot athlete, 24 years old who runs and jumps and does a lot of the things that we want here. I think he'll fit in extremely well.

We knew what we had and what we didn't have. We had a great meet and wow, what an ending.

I was a bit of a tomboy when I started modeling. And I've always felt athletic and strong.

Bo Ryan

We are not athletic or quick enough to be playing from behind. These guys know it, and the coaching staff knows it. Boy, did (Arizona) play well.

Bo Ryan

We are not athletic or quick enough to be able to play from behind. The players know it. The coaching staff knows it. That was our worst nightmare.

We (have) a sense of concern that the rate of growth especially in revenues and expenses in Division I-A is not sustainable, and it's growing three times as fast as university expenditures as a whole, ... Athletics requires a special level of attention.

We have heard tremendous positive feedback from the university athletic directors, conference commissioners and the baseball coaches. There is a great deal of momentum surrounding college baseball, and this project is another significant step forward.

We're having great success with it. I think it has a lot to do with our talent. We've got some kids who are pretty athletic and play very hard.

Rubin Carter

This really helps our program move forward. The loss of 28 scholarships would have been athletic suicide. We never would have been able to survive that.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

We thought we could get to the offensive boards. I thought we were a little bit bigger than they were. ... a little more athletic with our big girls. That's what we have to do. If we're going to win games, we've got to get to the boards and everybody knows that.

We're able to create offense with our athleticism and speed. We're faster than we have been.

We ran into a team that was more athletic and better prepared. They were a team that is more experienced in the atmosphere that we played in. The press hurt us.

Phil Bennett

We're a much more athletic team than we've ever been.

We hope to make the athletic booster club so happy with this brand new program that they want to help us out.

We have quickness, we have athletic ability, good hands and good heads. We just don't have good games.

There is certainly significant quality in our book both in terms of the quality of the horses at the end of the shank and in their racetrack performance. We had a bunch of horses that worked well during our first under tack show, they looked good doing it, and they look good when you go to the barn. In the 2-year-old sales, you've got to pass all three tests, and we had a number of horses that I thought passed all three tests with flying colors in the first preview. They have good conformation, they looked good on the video, and they worked within a reasonable timeframe in terms of demonstrating some level of athletic ability.

Barry Humphries

I have outlived most of my more athletic contemporaries who jogged, golfed and squashed themselves into coronary occlusion.

Robert M. Hutchins

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

We preferred the original date, but it became an opportunity for us to help out our athletic department and specifically, the basketball team. This is good for everyone.