Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

Dr. Anvari is a seasoned professional dean who emerged as our leading candidate from a national search, ... He comes to the university with many years of experience as a professor and dean. He just brings a lot of strength to our academic and administrative bench.

The thing that excited me about Georgetown is that I know I'll have good kids. Some of the things that other coaches have to worry about -- losing your best player because of academics -- I won't have to worry about. I just have to get them to play basketball.

Mary Ford

I've always been a big believer in transfers -- I understand the mentality, ... I've always believed transfers have an axe to grind. They come in with an incredible hunger, and I love the year they sit out, improve their academics and their game, and learn the system. And for us, these are really, really, really good basketball players.

Mara Wilson

I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.

Teams that use the squad-size adjustment to escape penalty rather than improve their academic practices right away might find the 'pay-me-later' syndrome hard to accept. As more years of APR data become available, teams will find scores harder to change.

It would seem to favor the community colleges, to the detriment of students who would prefer to attend a university. Some kids are better served at community colleges, and some kids are better served at universities. That decision should be based on academic reasons, not economic reasons.

It was ultimately her decision. But we all sat down and ranked the schools in terms of academics and athletics.

It was tough, knowing there was Division I schools where I could have walked on or had opportunities to play Division I-AA. They call you a student-athlete; sometimes the student part has to come first. The environment up there and the academics really mean a lot to me. A lot of people think I'm crazy for passing up those opportunities, but I really feel at peace that I made the right decision.

It was a chance to go away from home to play and I'll probably get to play earlier. Plus, it's a great academic school. It's close to an Ivy League education.

J. C. Watts

The senate is vital to the academic well-being of the university.

Jack O'Connell

These much-needed funds come at a critical time when state budget cuts are affecting the students who need the most help, ... These funds will help kids meet California's high academic standards so they will be successful in school or the workplace without the need for remedial courses.

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.

We will be seeking the academic perspective throughout this process, and in fact have begun so already with the formation of a faculty advisory committee.

We will be going out to each academic unit to talk about implementation in order to keep them informed throughout the process. No one will be left in the dark.

Henry Jenkins

What's exciting about this (symposium) is the total fusion of fan and academic discussions. That's a breaking down of the walls that hasn't occurred in many other places.

We can offer a premier music component and we offer what I consider a premium academic experience already. I would just as soon keep that separate and then in the afternoon they (students) could be immersed in music.

It would have been extremely disruptive with the middle school's academic program, ... With the local decision, we were fine with that.

The whole point about resting guys is all academic as of this week because we've got days off, and I don't have to rest anybody,

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.

Chris Bennett

The school is open to all -- no performances, portfolios or academic qualifications are necessary for admission. We build the curriculum around each individual student. They have the opportunity to choose the electives that challenge them and address their individual needs.

Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

You have to make sure the students are highly motivated to pursue their academic interests.

Arne Duncan

With innovative programs like Nourish for Knowledge and partnerships with organizations like the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Chicago Public Schools is working to provide our children with the solid foundation they need for a successful academic career.

You have to be an effective communicator, have a deep understanding of the complexity of a university this size, you should believe in shared governance, understand the academic mission of the university and have strong ethics.

You have to understand, when you're a part of UAF hockey, your time is constantly pulled out by a number of different ways. You have appearances, and talking to kids in schools, and dealing with academics and all the work they have to do as part of the hockey team. Honestly, the guys are more relaxed on the road. They don't have any of those usual pressures.