Famous Quotes & Sayings

After playing 80 minutes in a scoreless tie against Fayetteville Academy (on Friday night) we had a letdown physically. Our legs were king of dragging. We had enough left in the tank to pull out the win. It wasn't always pretty, but we'll take it.

Some people might say that an academic kid like that would be soft, but he's not soft. He is hard as a player. He covers kids that are bigger than him and weigh more than him, but he never gets kids that work harder than him.

Derek Bok

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

Andrew Greeley

One could say at a dinner party that most Americans are faithful to their spouses, and a loud mouth, semi-inebriated jerk can respond that the conclusion cannot be true because look at all the academics who sleep around at professional meetings.

One day, I was reading the New York Times and there was a front page story about Simmons and the Plan for Academic Enrichment, ... So that just got me to thinking, so I picked up the phone and asked if anybody was interested down there.

Action, not words, would be the measure of our success or failure. Will there be lengthy academic or legal debates on what constitutes genocide or crimes against humanity while people die?

We are an educational environment and we are not going to restrict access to research in an academic setting,

We are very proud of the academic progress we've made. I feel our program is as competitive both academically and athletically as any in the nation. We have gone to seven straight bowl games and our APR score ranks in the top 10 in the nation. That's a great accomplishment by our team and our staff.

We are students first. Academics are a higher priority. It should be a sign that good, dedicated representatives are needed on this assembly.

We are very excited to see the Tutor Time brand expand into the Portuguese child care and early education market. As we have seen in our other international franchise schools, Tutor Time's strong academic reputation and emphasis on caring for the whole child can be successfully translated into other cultures.

We are very excited about welcoming more students to Cal State San Marcos and meeting our spring 2006 and annual enrollment targets. There is a growing awareness of the excellent academic programs and student life on our campus.

We didn't play a good game. And Latin Academy came to play. We just weren't ready.

We went to Connecticut and I met the cadets from the Coast Guard Academy because they read my book over the summer for class,

We want all students, white, black, middle-class, affluent, working class, international students, to think about why addressing these issues is important for the educational experience elite liberal arts colleges impart on all of their students. We want to raise questions and problem-solve about how academia as a whole can affect change in larger society.

Ben Goldacre

In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.

Bill Self

Brandon and his family rightfully have been waiting for positive feedback from the NCAA Clearinghouse concerning his eligibility, ... We received information from the Clearinghouse today, and Brandon is eligible to pursue a college career this academic year.

Liam Fox

Britain needs an education system that is appropriate to both society and the individual - and it is wrong to pretend that watering down academic standards in pursuit of universal achievement will do that,

Evangelicals, through their own scholarship as well as the support and encouragement of such bodies as Tyndale Fellowship, the John Wesley Fellowship and, to a lesser extent, the Institute for Biblical Research, have been able to secure positions in academic institutions beyond those traditionally regarded as evangelical. This includes folks teaching at major public and private universities.

There was a glut of informatics people because all of these academic programs popped up.

There's no question that playing so close to Athens and the campus has its advantages for us. Travel is very time consuming and taxing physically, especially when you're juggling academic and athletic schedules, so we'll be able to avoid some of that and hopefully be fresher for the NCAA Regional and the NCAA Championships. We also hope these tournaments will give our supporters a chance to come out and watch us play. It means so much to the guys to look into the gallery and see someone wearing a Georgia cap or shirt.

Mike Pompeo

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

Jeff Tedford

vision of Cal being one of the premier dominating schools (in football). The academics here are high quality, and with coach Tedford, we're like a family.

You got kids cheating their way to a diploma and a degree. They're building a fairly shaky academic foundation.

Peter Cullen

I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.

There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.

What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.

Paul Berg

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

Tessa Jowell

This Skills Task Force should be a small, dynamic core of business leaders, government representatives and academics meeting to examine the problem of skills shortages in Europe. It is estimated that there will be 1.7 million vacancies in the IT sector by 2003. This European-wide approach is vital if we are to ensure we have a sufficiently skilled work force to meet the needs of the IT industry,

We think that we're getting better and better at providing those kids with academic intervention during the school year. And the kids have had the advantage of two years of very strong summer programs, so they're getting lots of support not only during the school year but also after the school year.

The broad conclusion from tons of academic research is that private sector does things better than government. In a lot of these cases privatization is the only thing do because (large state projects) require a lot of capital and government entities usually have limited access to capital.

At Valor, we believe that the personal, social and academic growth of students is a responsibility shared by our students, their parents, the Valor staff, the school district and the community in which we live.

Harry Smith

As long as there are no significant objections, the school should be given the status in time for the academic year beginning in September 2006.

Cary Sherman

As long as students continue to corrupt this specialized academic network for the flagrant theft of music, we will continue to make it clear that there are consequences for these unlawful actions.