Famous Quotes & Sayings

This game will have a playoff atmosphere with a lot of alumni returning to watch both teams. The only difference is there will be some baseball left to play for both teams instead of the season being over for the losing team.

This center will greatly benefit students who will one day be alumni themselves.

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

I hope so. It would be neat for the game, the alumni and the community.

I'm ready. I want to play Placer Hillmen football at Le Febvre Stadium. This is one of the best weeks of the year, it's great to see all the alumni come back.

I'm joining the university at a time of tremendous growth and see it as an opportunity to build a successful basketball team with a winning tradition of which our students, alumni and community can be proud.

Alumni Hall worked great, and he's trained real well and he's sharp. You get indecisive when you have another race that suits him 20 miles away. Of course, the Gold Cup is a great race so we're kind of on the fence right now, but we'll have a decision pretty soon.

Alumni come out of the woodwork for this one.

These alumni are aware of funding issues confronting their initiative and are committed to accomplishing funding requirements inherent in law school start-up and operation.

In 10 years, I see him as being very rich and having a family. When we come back for the alumni game in 10 years, maybe we'll be playing or maybe we'll be on the sidelines laughing.

He's a person that was very passionate and really believed in what he was doing in his work life. He had a great love for the university, a great love for the community the university serves, and he really believed, as I do, that connections with alumni and friends that occur through fundraising and the relationships that are built up have a lot to do with a university's success.

The most important thing to me is to be playing well. We need to win some games away from Alumni Gym because the tournament isn't being played there.

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

Cael Sanderson

This is a chance to make a statement to the nation about where we stand as a program. We have young talent and successful alumni and this is a platform to get more experience.

This institution has been around since 1887. It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

This institution has been around since 1887, ... It will continue. The alumni is growing bigger and bigger. We'll rely on that as well as the student body to make sure that this university will continue.

This memorial garden, designed to spring into life each September, will be a living memorial to the alumni who were lost. It is a quiet place to reflect about the importance of friends, family and life, amidst a turbulent world.

The student body and community have been unbelievable in supporting the team and the program. I am also thrilled with the involvement and interest our alumni have taken. I know the players have also appreciated all the support at their matches and around town. People have been so good to the team, and they love playing in front of a great home crowd.

People told me that nobody was going to show up. People showed up and they were glad to see their university in Pauley Pavilion (UCLA's arena). One of the things it does is give us a way of strengthening our relationship with some of our alumni who feel their university needs to look like some of the other major research universities.

Eric Gordon

Our alumni present us with a unique opportunity to build a foundation of support to be a strong public school.

Dawn is the epitome of what the Distinguished Alumni Award represents. Since graduating in 1992 she has brought notoriety, prestige, and honor to the University through her personal and professional endeavors. Dawn's experiences at Virginia have helped her to impact the world in a meaningful way. She is most deserving of this recognition.

The Michigan State golf program would like to thank host Tom Ross III, David Hotze, and the rest of the alumni team for providing a great golfing experience.

Bill Smith

It was great to see all of the alumni and family members out to visit our new home. It's a new beginning for a team rich in winning tradition.

Wendy Kopp

On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.

Students with learning and attention challenges have been entering higher education in much increased numbers over the last 10 years. We've seen our alumni go on to graduate school in increasingly larger numbers.

For a small institution like this to raise that large amount of money involving such a high percentage of its alumni is significant.

Wendy Kopp

It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.

It's a really neat atmosphere around school. Everybody's excited. The administration has been so supportive. I'm getting e-mails from alumni who graduated as far back as 1982.

It takes a lot of planning. It involves teachers, staff, parents, students, alumni and a lot of business who donate a lot of services.

Joe Gordon

Never saw him at Steelers alumni gatherings. He pretty much distanced himself from football.

Gary Patterson

It was a great win for the program, but now it's time to move on. I'm very happy for TCU, the alumni and the players. It's been a lot of fun, but now it's back to work.

It's going to be tough. The alumni really have a good chance of winning because they played one more year and a lot of them played college.

It's getting harder to learn about these things because there are so few of them left. It won't be too long before there aren't any alumni around to talk about it.