Famous Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people will have that mentality of: Why Truman?, but I'll tell you what - we have a lot of good things at Truman. The people who go to school here are pretty fortunate. I'm fortunate to be here. We have the best academics in the conference. Our kids are getting jobs. We've just been named the No. 1 school in the conference for graduation rate. That's what you talk about.

They don't even talk about basketball. It's telling you straight out: Obviously, you have to make time for basketball. But academics come first. You have to take care of business in the classroom to even have a chance to play. If you don't succeed in the classroom, you aren't getting on the court.

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.

It has great academics and it's a nice school. I got a good feel for the basketball program.

He's progressing really well. He's gone through some things back home, and because he's a junior college transfer, he had to pass a bunch of classes over the summer. So he did more academics than football. But he took care of (the academics) and passed his classes.

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.

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

Chris Hernandez

Coach Walberg and all the coaches at Clovis West prepared me very well with discipline, academics and mental toughness.

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.

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.

Aaron D. O'Connell

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

Schools are trying to compete for those students, not just on academics alone, but the whole package they can offer those students. They are competing on a much different scale then they were 10 years ago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Steve Simmons

They're responding well to the traveling. More than anything, we are making sure they're staying on top of their academics and anything non-soccer related.

Eric Hyman

This is a tremendous accomplishment for our student-athletes. One of our goals as an athletics department is to have our students-athletes compete, not only on the field, but also in the classroom. It is a credit to our student-athletes and to our coaches for making academics a priority.

This is such a good competition because it places emphasis more on academics rather than looks. It really is a more level playing field because of that.

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.

It's really important for parents to understand that the right choice isn't just about academics. If academics is all you're getting out of the experience than you're not getting your money's worth.

The attraction to go there was the academics and the religious background for the kids.

Taiwan is China's only archrival these days. China punished these academics to send a warning to Taiwan. Only when the Americans interfere did they compromise.

It was just seeing how competitive I actually was in academics when I got to high school. Mrs. Moody and Mrs. Trevino have been my math teachers. They really expanded my like for that subject.

It's sort of central to the academics rooms.

Bob Hill

It's not a Division I school. It's a good school, but they should really think about going to Division III and putting academics first if they're not going to put any money in sports.

Gary Roberts

They can say that it's economics and academics all they want. But the reality is that no matter how they handle our jobs, there will be no cost savings.

They were chosen because of their expertise in campus planning working with the best academics and universities in the country, ... The team that they have put together for this effort is world class, with extensive experience in academic campus plans.

I've had some great players, and I hate to compare players from different eras that have played for me. But I don't think there's too many players with a better combination of character, academics and athletics than Kane. He is a great one.