Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Gordon

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Jim Tressel

especially because they're Ohio State and Texas, two great schools that if you had to pick two you'd want to see play, if it's the last game you'd ever want to see in your life, it might be these two and that makes it special, two great football states, two great schools, two of the largest alumni in the world. The interest level is tremendous.

Every time we have an outsourcing forum, it's like a GE and McKinsey alumni association meeting.

Continue your Brown experience . . . with the Brown Alumni Association

We do put out an annual report to all of our patrons and alumni every year. A lot is spelled out to the parents and also our patrons, who are so generous.

You have aspirations of doing things, and it's kind of neat to see everything fall together. The parents and the alumni are really the people that's made it happen. Everything has kind of snowballed.

We wanted something so people who are interested in the program can stay in touch. I think it's going to be especially useful for alumni who are out of the area now.

We had a good week of practice following the alumni game, made some personnel adjustments to get our best players in the most crucial spots, and our offense has been executing well in practice.

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.

We just think it is a really good way to introduce the students to the Alumni Association.

The Pro-Am has become one of our favorite events of the year and it should be a fun follow-up to our alumni reunion we held last month. The draw size has grown considerable over the last several years, which is great to see, as we take pride in recognizing our past, the present, and the future of Bronco Tennis.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?s big knowing we kept the tradition going. It?s not just for the team that?s wrestling. It?s also for all the alumni from years past. They want to see us keep the tradition going that they started.

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.

It's a very exciting moment for all of our alumni and the school itself.

Bill Thomas

Even though the building was torn down in 1972, people still have a strong connection to Atlanta High School. It was a very successful effort from alumni all over the United States.

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.

I came here to graduate, play for the Crimson Tide and be part of the alumni here and family and history that they've got here. So that's what I did, stay here with these guys.

I'd say you can do anything you want to do with a psychology degree. We do alumni surveys of our undergraduates and I can tell you that there are firemen, marketing directors, ministers, teachers, pilots and business executives.