Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Lewis

A lot of suburbs have great facilities, a lot of money that is put into (the private school athletic programs), ... Integration is a big thing that hurt us because we (at Carver) always had a lot of good athletes and after integration they were going somewhere else.

(Amateur) athletes may not know what they're doing. The cream they're putting on sore muscles could contain steroids and they don't know it.

A lot of these athletes, their objective is to sustain their quest for the next Olympics, not having to work at a job that distracts them, ... Most of them will gladly do it on six-figure deals. Five-figure deals are what a lot of these athletes look for.

A lot of us are really surprised at how they're playing because they have so many athletes on the team. It does kind of bother us that they're 3-3.

They physically wore us down. Their experience and strength took over. They have nice athletes who are competitive, tenacious and well-drilled.

The young athletes have show their strong potential at the Games and their steady performances have boosted our hope in the winter sports.

They have great athletes at every position, they present a lot of problems for you. I think Karl and his staff have done a great job putting together an offense that's especially explosive, difficult to deal with and has answers.

Derek Anderson

They have found a lot of creative and unique ways to get their athletes the ball.

They gave out cash prizes to the pro swimmers. There were Olympic athletes and college ones. They were from all over. They were high-caliber athletes.

Steve King

They have a nice defensive team, also, ... They are very good up front, have nice linebackers and awfully good athletes in the secondary.

They have a lot of speed on defense. There's no doubt that they have more athletes than we've got, especially at the skill positions. We just need to come out with more heart and more desire to win.

They have a lot of athletes and they run the ball fairly well. They can score quickly, and we'll have to control the ball and control the clock to be successful.

This is not picking on any one student athlete. This goes for all student athletes that are under that contract.

This is really Joe's second year of playing goalie. He's an excellent athlete and is really learning how to do it. Tonight they exposed his weaknesses. But they exposed us because we had someone in the penalty box all night.

This is probably, truly, the highlight of my coaching career. I have had many, many great athletes in my career, but this was a complete team effort and was certainly a thrill.

Mike Holder

This isn't just about football or basketball or our major sports. It's about every sport, giving every coach here and every athlete here the opportunity to strive for excellence.

This isn't just about core runners. This is about all athletes of all levels of competition and shapes and sizes. Running is the most diplomatic of all activities.

The U.S. Ski Team Day will provide an outstanding opportunity for skiers to celebrate our sport during the Olympic period and to help the athletes of the U.S. Ski Team to be 'Best in the World' in 2006.

The United States Olympic Committee is pleased to work with Visa to provide the U.S. delegation of athletes, coaches and staff with a tool that will simplify all their financial transactions and needs during the Olympic Winter Games. These easy-to-use cards provide tremendous advantages. We are thrilled U.S. Team Olympic sponsors, Visa and Bank of America, have come together to provide these cards to athletes and operational staff during a busy time.

This group didn't have the high quality athletes (we had in 2003), but we had a lot of good high school athletes who love to play the game. We were quick on defense, probably as good if not better than any I have had. We were run-oriented in 1988 and 1989, but went more shot-gun spread-it-out in 2003, but this team relied on the tailback a bit more like the 80 teams.

Maurice Greene

This doesn't just go for American athletes, it goes for every athlete competing,

This feels good - my first game at tailback and I get athlete of the week, ... I couldn't do it without my blockers but it feels good. I wouldn't be able to do it without my team helping me out.

This announcement brings us another step closer to ensuring that more Canadian athletes experience the greatness of standing on the podium representing Canada in 2010.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

Tamba Hali

They were graduating 86-90 percent of their athletes that year, and they were graduating minorities (at a) high (rate). Everything just fell into place for me.

It really is different. You have to figure out how each athlete works in order to get the most out of them.

It really does make a huge difference if we have that support - fan support and as much yelling and cheering. It really makes a huge difference, not only in helping motivate and pump up our athletes and help their performances, but it also just creates an environment that's special to our athletes but also is intimidating to our opponents.

It's all about athletes, especially with girls. If you can get an athlete out there that can just transfer ability, be coordinated and understand and do the mechanics and the techniques, you'll be OK. And they learn it really quick. This year I had 20 freshmen girls and I could have kept 20, that's how into the game they are.

Scott Jones

I told them all week we needed to get 400 yards rushing and control the clock. Dunbar has too many athletes and we needed to keep them off the field. They did it.

It is tough, real tough (to win back-to-back SEC individual titles). You have to be a great athlete to defend your title in the SEC because it doesn't happen a lot. That is a tribute to the team that those guys came here prepared.

It's not just like it was a torn A.C.L.. It's a magnitude more difficult to recover from and repair. It can and has ended careers, without a doubt. However, I feel very comfortable with Carson as an athlete and the heart that he's got.

Chuck Jones

It's not impossible that you could have a student athlete going virtually every day, week after week, and that's not a good situation. We try to prevent that.

Scott Perry

It's not something that natural talent plays as much a part in as drive. The guys that join are relatively good athletes who just didn't want to pursue their sport in college.