Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's a new NCAA rule in Division 1. In the academic year it used to be two assistants on the road and now it's three. All the three of our guys, their primary role will be recruiting.

As Washington University continues to grow its biomedical and academic research programs, they are realizing the need for one centralized system to help them manage and track often overwhelming amounts of data and reports.

ASUM hosts the Student Showcase every year in order for unique academic programs in the UM system to present their programs and their accomplishments to legislators.

Matt Cartwright

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

Abolishing tenure could just turn the decision making over to deans who come out of today's orthodox academic world. That would mean that few remaining non-leftists would get pushed out.

The most encouraging thing is finally it's narrowing. This is something I've been writing about for so long, and it's been the most discouraging thing about athletics and academics -- that gap has been persistently wide, and has in some cases gotten wider.

Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

Academic skills are things we're going to be teaching them. Socially, you don't know until they're here interacting with other kids.

Tommy Tuberville

Academics are the No. 1 thing. It's the first thing we tell players when they come to Auburn. They are here to get a degree first and foremost. Once they understand that, they understand that football is second.

Emily Johnson

Academics always come first, that is why they're here.

Academic research shows pretty convincingly that people have separate accounts in mind, one for the item itself and one for shipping.

Academic reform is really reshaping the focus of analysis to the team level.

Academic departments will work with students to help them enroll in appropriate courses, and on-campus student housing may also be available. However, time is of the essence, and we hope to have interested students enrolled as soon as possible.

Academia was no different from the general population: A lot of people liked to look down their noses.

Academia smarts is just part of it. You need people skills, everything from knowing how to interact to conducting meetings.

It's just pleasing to me to have a young man like that in our program because the reason he's at school is academics first and he's applied himself, not only on the court but off the court.

John Clarke

This award is presented by the state. They make their choices based on both athletic and academic excellence.

This approach will reduce the initial training academy costs. And incentives should be explored to attract quality applicants.

This is academics in action, purposeful learning. We need to teach kids to give and to help others.

This is an academic enterprise of a particular kind in the fine arts: taking a program and honing it to a very high degree.

Mike Ferguson

This initiative aims to marry the best of drug industry practice with academic excellence in a university environment.

This inaugural class will set the tone with high academic standards, a deep commitment to public service and a resolve not to fail. The main theme of the presentation will be to encourage students to set high goals and make every effort to exceed them.

This has been a most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my entire life. But after consultation with my doctor and my family, I have decided not to rejoin the football team. I will focus on regaining my health and my academic pursuit of getting an MBA.

They told us the academics are refused, but continue to persistently stalk them.

It's unbelievable how big this win is for us. We got swamped 5-0 by Webb Monday and that was the lowest we've been all season. To come back today and beat an undefeated King's Academy team is huge.

It's not just what you spend on the major-league payroll. In the last year we've purchased a Double-A franchise (in Springfield, Mo.), paid more than double for early-round draft picks and opened an academy in the Dominican Republic. We've made a much greater investment in international scouting and player development. Perhaps those things aren't as apparent as major-league payroll, but they're there and they have tremendous significance.

For instance, we used part of $50,000 this year to do some emergency maintenance work at Academy school. This has always been set aside for unforeseen repairs.

For her, academics has always come first. She's going to be surrounded by players with the same focus.

Kevin Conroy

Following the incredible success of our collaboration with the Recording Academy in February, and as part of our continued efforts to offer the premier online experience to music fans around the world, we are thrilled to bring the excitement of the 3rd Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards to our AOL members and consumers on the Web. This important relationship builds on AOL's popularity as the leading online provider among U.S. Hispanics. - the fastest growing population in the U.S. - as well as our popular Latin music offerings.

It's not uncommon for private schools across the nation to hold kids back for a year, normally in the intermediate age, ... It's for academic reasons, emotional, physical reasons, to fully develop the child. It wasn't to gain an athletic advantage. It was to develop the study habits to succeed in college.

It's not worth our time to go after kids without the academic credentials.

It's the magnitude of it I think that's making it difficult for people to grasp what's happened. London has been in touch. The Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School, have all been in touch to offer their sympathies as well.