Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Marcellus Wiley

I've never been through that type of devastation as an athlete.

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.

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.

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.

Sarah is our team leader, both on and off the court. She is a model student-athlete and has turned into a really solid player.

Quite often tall people, they're not always as well-coordinated, as athletic, and Chris is one of those fortunate people, not only is he big but he's well coordinated, ... He's a very good athlete, he's quick on his feet and he can move. He's obviously good with high balls, with balls in the air, but he's also very, very quick at getting down for low balls.

Will Muschamp

Quentin's a good athlete. He plays well in space and can do some different things to give the offense some problems. That's what we're exploring right now.

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.

I've never seen so many long runs on kickoffs. Darrell Blackman is an awfully good 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 an example of how athletics can benefit and bring recognition to a university. That type of publicity for our basketball program and our university, you really can't measure that.

This is an opportunity for the administration to work with the faculty and staff at the school of education. These types of relationships are rare at a lot of colleges. Combine the missions of PASA and athletics and the result will be beneficial for students.

This is not the case of a pampered athlete. This is not a case or a situation where someone said, 'Hey, I played ball. You need to treat me differently.' He took it like a man.

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.

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.

Steve Alford

You never like to lose a guy who's meant so much, not only to our program, but to athletics in general at our school.