Famous Quotes & Sayings

If I put on my academic hat, I would have nothing to tell you to explain this. The only thing keeping people going is hope and optimism about the future that is unknown. The hope is the evidence of things not seen. I think that is the only way to explain optimism, because you can't base it on any analysis of our current condition.

Rick Dickson

I can't say enough about the tremendous outpouring of support we have received from every single person we have spoken to over the last several days. Our priority was to continue to provide a high quality academic and athletic experience for our athletes. This plan could not have come together without their help.

Growing up, it was always academics first, then basketball. If you would ask me to choose between the two, then it would be academics because I know anything can happen tomorrow. I can get injured or something and then basketball is over but I'll always have my mind.

Frank Pinckney took a first-rate health system and developed it into a renowned academic medical center. Every resident in this region stands to benefit from that.

From a recruiting and academic standpoint, trying to practice on the same court poses some problems. They are not monumental problems, and we've been able to overcome them for some time.

From its inception, the festival has been a celebration of reading and literature of the state. It's not an academic conference. And it's been a huge success.

I would say that in my 21 years, the number of those schools has quadrupled, and I would put schools in quotation marks. They're not all academic institutions.

Ken brings a strong and varied background in business, accounting, academics and administration to his new role,

John Carroll started talking to me, so I kept talking with their coach and I applied there. The coach said, 'I want you over here next year.' It's a smaller program with high academics and a good wrestling program. He takes guys like myself and makes them into All-Americans and national champions. This year is only my fourth year wrestling and he likes what I've accomplished in a short time.

I think it's a great advantage. It allows you to get a gauge of where you're at, get some people healthy, either those who were injured in camp or in the game, and it allows you to settle into an academic routine.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think it is madness. It is not what you would have if there was any reasonable balance between academics and athletics.

I think in the case of my father, in terms of the things that influenced me, he never pressed me to go into academics or pressed me to go to a field, and indeed, my behavior was largely to move as far the other direction. I don't think that's uncommon with people with very successful parents.

Basically, the academic units are running as lean as they can. We've already cut everything we can cut.

I'm an academic and an applied mathematician who studies the control of movement. I've used the mechanical engineering techniques to alter the dynamics of the bikes.

Thomas Menino

I look forward to visiting all of the schools in our system this year and wish all of our students an enriching academic experience.

Howard Schmidt

I have spent my career trying to raise national awareness of information security issues through my various corporate and public policy positions. By joining the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, one of our nation's most progressive and innovative academic environments for computing, I can now provide my vision and insight to those research and educational initiatives that will drive the future development of cyber security solutions for the everyday computer user.

I have some wonderful kids to work with. They are in the upper academic tier.

I have always been a firm believer in participation so there were no cuts. We practiced three times a week but if a student had an academic conflict, academics took priority.

I have a high regard for the academics at Delaware, and the history of athletic success speaks for itself.

I had a son who wanted to play college basketball, so this is what we did. We made up a resume sheet that had his picture, academic and athletic information, and then put together a good tape that showed some highlights of his season. After that we picked out 50 or so schools that he was interested in, and then mailed the packets. Then we followed up with phone calls. We ended up getting a great response. He signed with a school in Nebraska (York College) and got to play a few years before hurting his knee.

I think it says a lot about the character of our kids, their academic commitment and their athletic commitment. We have good athletes, but they're good football players and good kids, too. They've represented us well.

I think it's almost necessary ... in an academic setting, if you're studying it. It's especially valuable to see what the controversy is over, not just that there is a controversy.

Doug Jones

I think the challenge is in schools trying to find a way to address the 30 minutes a day of physical activity without interfering with academic progress and how this is going to be done with a limited number of (physical education) teachers, limited space and limited time.

It is good because it's our first bye week of the season. It'll be good, have an extra day off to chill, watch some film and concentrate on academics a little more.

It is pretty bizarre to see that many girls from the same class choose to go to the same college, ... especially when you consider the size of the school and the (high) academic standards. I think all of the girls will be happy with the choice. It looks like a great school. We're very happy Sam got in there.

Here, it's more that you have everybody supporting you. Everybody's going to be there. Your teammates, your coaches, your academic advisers, everybody is doing things to help you, and when you get at the professional level you have to do everything to help yourself.

He's Academic All-State in soccer because he has a GPA better than 3.6.

B. F. Skinner

Here we are playing great basketball, and you'd think they'd take these things into consideration. From an academic standpoint, it has not served us very well. We're going to have to go to the other side of the country. We have to travel to a different time zone. So, we've got some issues, and we've got to try to limit them as best we can.

Going from academic person to TV host has been fun and exhausting at the same time.

He said he had accomplished all that he could in those four years, and it was time for him to get back to his academic pursuits.

Al Groh

He's doing a nice job. It sounds like an over-simplification, but people who know him will understand that he's just being Vic. He's doing well because he's Vic Hall. Whether it's academics or holding on field goals for the first time, or playing on the corner, he's got a real good sense of competition.

(His true personality) struck me in the first moments. He had that academic air.

If a kid is being bullied, that's all they think about and cannot concentrate on their academic studies.