Famous Quotes & Sayings

The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.

We strive to do what is best for our student-athletes so they can succeed in the classroom and on the playing field. Athletics done the right way can mean so much to a university, like it has here at Colgate for many, many years.

We have never received this magnitude of funding for physical education or for athletics overall. It was a sacrifice, but it was a sacrifice in my opinion that worked very well because of all the things we gained by calling this wildcat strike.

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.

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.

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.

Robert Johnson

At first, me not playing quarterback, I didn't want to do it, ... I'm an athlete, so maybe coach Leach saw something in me, so I didn't complain. I'm out here making plays, so I'm just going to keep on doing what I'm doing.

A lot of attention needs to be focused on athletics in Britain, especially now the 2012 Olympics will be held there.

Jacques Rogge

They gave standing ovations to every single athlete.

Mike Darnell

This competition will require our celebrity skaters to not only demonstrate rhythm, but also athleticism, grace and balance on ice, and before a team of unforgiving judges with both Olympic and world championship experience,

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

Will Shields

For any athlete, you never can tell what's going to happen four years, five years down the road,

There was some good and positive response from a few companies, individuals and my former school, Lodge, but I still haven't heard from the AAA (Amateur Athletics Association) about the Solidarity Fund.

Mike Williams

There's 10 percent of our population that basically has no opportunity to participate in high school athletics unless they're a manager, which really isn't the same experience. It's not nearly as inclusive as I'd like to see it.

E. O. Wilson

It's a good thing for kids to be able to learn about athletics in this way. We thought this was a great way to get the word out and let kids know that this is out there.

This is a view found to be widely held by the athletics community.

Chad Greenway

They recruited me as an athlete. Whatever that means.

They're both great players. Young's an excellent athlete, a winner and a leader. I think he'll be a fine quarterback.

They're finding new, creative ways to get in trouble and we're finding new creative ways to keep them out of trouble. It's always about fun. Athletics in the town has a definite role to play.

They're no different than any other athlete. There was no momentum at that point. The team could have deflated itself, and it didn't. When she hit that vault, that was huge.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

It's a very big deal for our state, for both conferences and for the university. We're going to make a lot of money off the use of the stadium that can be put back into the athletics program.

It wasn't like people were approaching me just because they knew I was an athlete. People were actually calling me by my name. They knew who I was and some of them even wanted me to sign pictures they had from me competing in college.

It wasn't him that gave in, it was his knee that gave out. He never really got a fair chance. I remember him having these problems from day one. It's sad to see anybody's career cut short. He never got a chance to show people on a big stage what he was capable of. It's a very frustrating thing for any athlete.

Chuck Jones

It was both a student athlete-oriented and program-oriented decision. We're very satisfied, and we think Bruce fits all of these criteria many times over. Plus, he's just a good, solid individual.

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.

Steve Cram

As far as athletics is concerned, you will see some far better performances in Melbourne than you will see at this summer's European Championships.

Anquan Boldin

As an athlete, you think you are OK and you go by how you feel. But sometimes it's not that simple,

Gabe Kapler

As an athlete, you have to have that feeling that you can beat the odds, come back sooner than expected. Otherwise, the guys who are like, 'What's going to happen?', those guys it takes three months longer. It's better to have the reverse attitude.

As an athlete, while standing on the ice, the only goal is to win the gold medal. What's more important for me is that I could compete in one more Olympic Games.

The Breakfast of Champions is the perfect way to celebrate as a community what is special about athletics at Temple.