Famous Quotes & Sayings

This type of meet is instrumental in developing the younger kids. We're always searching for that young athlete to take the next step up to the varsity.

Rick Majerus

What Pop doesn't have is the athletes or depth, to a certain extent. It'll be good for this team. I tell you, it's disruptive. I think this could help George. If it doesn't, you don't lose anything. The way George plays, he's reinforced his help principles through a great drill if he never uses this (in a game).

John Jones

We have about 200 more athletes this year. This is the biggest year we've ever had.

Jacques Rogge

We cannot support what he is saying. An athlete must be a role model. If Bode Miller is at his peak, if Bode Miller refrains from making those comments, people will think of his performance and he can be a big star. He's a young man. You can understand it, but you cannot excuse it.

Jacques Rogge

We cannot, of course, support what he is saying. An athlete must be a role model. It's about the responsibilities you have as an athlete.

We just do everything we can think of to give our athletes the help for them to (succeed).

We knew Chase County has some good athletes and we knew they were going to come after us. They started in a man-to-man and we were able to execute some pretty good offense. We did a lot of good things on defense. It's a pretty good win. In the second half, we got tentative and Chase County turned up the heat a little and made it a little more difficult for us to flow.

I understand that (football) is his focus, but he's a good athlete and in basketball you can always use good athletes. He's 6-2 and he's tough. I can put him in the game and he won't be afraid.

The whole mindset of student athletes today is me, as opposed to we. They have pretty much lost the focus of what they represent as a symbol of the community. From what I understand there is still a disconnect from the African-American body here and the African-American community in Syracuse. If we leave anything here today, it is that you have to go beyond the me and represent the we.

They all have had their own unique things about them, but the X Games was the best. It was so unusual. La Jolla turned it away due to neighborhood complaints ... and in a matter of months we had them. ESPN, the athletes ... I have to believe, fiscally, it was a winner for us, and you can't put a price tag on international exposure. We hooked ourselves up with a giant.

The women's team dominance in the throws really set the tone for the squad. For the most part the distance and mid-distance athletes trained through our meet, so I was pleasantly surprised by some of the results.

These are young vibrant athletes who have a lot of energy and confidence that they can play. That excitement drives TV ratings and produces opportunities.

Tom Izzo

These are two of the top athletes in the country, and they are in the best shape of their lives. It's a lot to build a team around.

DeLoss Dodds

I've seen a lot of great athletes in my time in this business. He's the best of them all.

Tyler Christopher

I've seen too many athletes come over hoping to do their personal best or to get a bronze or just compete,

George Steinbrenner

I've never seen an athlete dominate any sport -- in baseball, in basketball, in football -- like he dominated this series.

I've seen a lot of athletes come and go through here. Some of them were questionably as good as Bryan is. But they did not have the complete package - the academics, correct attitude and the ability. That's what it takes to get where he's gotten so far.

Sebastian Coe

You hope all good athletes run on the balls of their feet. You don't want them coming down heel first. The perfect style is the foot to come down with a slight supination and on a tilt to the outside.

To get their name on a brick, athletes simply need to collect $100 in donations. Included on the brick are their name, their hometown and the year they purchased the brick.

To get that many athletes in one place was unreal. It was nice to be a part of it. We plan to come back.

You have to work at it, like everything else. It's easy to put God on the back burner, or to turn to him only when you have a problem. A lot of people use prayer when they are in need, then stop. To have a strong relationship with God, you have to keep going back to it. Like an athlete has to work hard to improve his skills, you have to maintain your faith to strengthen it.

This year did not just happen. It took three years. The secret of being a successful coach is when you have good athletes, being able to put those athletes where they have the highest percent chance of winning.

Yvette Girouard

What an incredible honor, not only for Emily, but also for our program. Emily deserves all of the positives she is seeing in her performances because she is literally the hardest working athlete I have ever coached.

We're playing a lot of players on the back end on defense, and they keep getting better. We've just needed to get better athletes on the field.

Junior Seau

Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

We've been spending most of our time so far just working on technique. A lot of the athletes just need help with the basics. We've been working on the proper stroke and our endurance and that's pretty much what we do consistently.

We try like crazy to get the kids to play more than one sport. It takes a special athlete to be able to play three, but two sports is more likely. It is hard to get kids to do it these days.

We just want to expose the kids to what took place in the past, show them how fortunate they are to have the opportunities to participate in sports, so they can have a better perspective of the challenges those athletes faced in those times.

We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one of those time periods where top to bottom, senior class to sophomore, there were a lot of good athletes.

Rhett Miller

We just had a lot more athletes than they did. We had to watch A.J. Bridges because he's a great player, but we pretty much controlled the game. We worked the ball real well.

Jerry Miller

There should be some good races. Historically, we've had some of the fastest athletes in the state race in this meet.

There's no question there were more athletes on (Reynoldsburg's) team than ours. At the same time, I don't think their kids had any bigger hearts than ours. I'm extremely proud of every player that stepped on the floor.

There's no doubt we lost one of the great athletes in our entire athletics history. His football accomplishments are rivaled by very few. The entire sports world is going to miss him, and we as a university and athletic department are going to miss him. He means a great deal to our football legacy.