Famous Quotes & Sayings

Commitment. I know what it takes for athletes to be successful at this high a level. I went, sometimes during my career, four month without a day off. If you love what you are doing, being committed is really not that difficult.

Coston knows he's not the best athlete around and he'll tell you that. But he busts his tail every day in practice and gives you everything he's got in games. He's had a great year.

(Costa) reminds me a lot of Kellen Clemens in that he played safety and quarterback, was one of the toughest, one of the fastest and one of the best athletes on the field. And he is a great leader.

Down the road, you are going to see a lot more wheelchair athletes come out. Maybe they felt uncomfortable before, but now that it's being exposed we may see more of them.

Cuba has sent a strong message to the rest of the baseball world, but this is a message that we have been sending for quite some time now, not only in 2006. Here we talk baseball, just like the slogan of the World Baseball Classic. And baseball is baseball, it doesn't matter the price paid to the athletes that play it.

Brian Billick

We're disappointed that it went down this way. We aggressively tried to pursue an athlete that we thought would dramatically impact our team, and we did it in constant concert and connection with the league and the management council. We proceeded in the proper way we were told to proceed, and now we find out that the circumstances are different. That's regrettable, but we'll move on.

Greg Erwin

We think the athletes really find Hayward Field just tremendous.

David Stern

We think that our players are the most talented athletes in the world and people come to watch them play, not to fight, bump and knock each other down.

Lloyd Carr

Vince Young is the finest athlete I've ever been on the field with.

We are very excited to have Kirsten become a member of the University of New Hampshire volleyball family. Kirsten is an outstanding athlete who will excel on the court and in the classroom. She has all the tools to be an immediate impact player for us. She has an outstanding vertical jump and is a very competitive player. She is also very gifted academically so it was a perfect fit for the both of us.

We have enough athletes that love to compete and push each other. They keep pushing each other until they reach the regional or national level. We've never had huge numbers, but we have a lot of competitors.

We like to score and make a lot of players happy. I think it's a style of basketball that's attractive to athletes that want to get out and get it up and down the court. Most importantly, the guys just played hard out there and it was a total team effort. A lot of different guys contributed to the win, plus it keeps us undefeated in the conference.

We like to outlet and run. But you've got to have the ball. Mascoutah has some great athletes and they made it difficult for us to control the boards. We did a better job of blocking out in the third quarter and were able to push the ball.

Both Glenn and Peter are the kind of athletes that, after a poor performance, they usually rebound really well.

Both Chris and Tyler are outstanding, world-class athletes and either would be a great Olympian. We greatly respect Chris for his accomplishments in the sport.

Bode is clearly the type of athlete that comes once every 50 years.

Brandon Dunn is a tremendous athlete and their entire team should be proud of the way they played. They played us tough and I give them a lot of credit because we were not able to do some of the things that we wanted to do.

We are very competitive in the women's events, but that doesn't mean our athletes can definitely win gold medals.

We see a great athlete that can possibly play four positions. He has only played (two full) years of football. Plus, he can help us right away on (special) teams with his body type.

Very upbeat, real exciting. I think a lot of guys are happy with the organizational moves, the direction it's taken. Not only the good athletes they brought in, but the camaraderie is good, too. We all fit the same type -- all easy going, no big heads and that's real key.

Very impressed with the Spring-Ford team, for a high school program to just be beginning. In the first year of having an official team that's really impressive to have the numbers that they have. We had the opportunity today to swim a variety of events. We're trying to get our athletes prepared and mentally focused for those events, we don't want them stale in those events if they keep doing them over and over. Obviously we're going to find out where we stand in the upcoming weeks.

U.S.A.D.A. is pleased there are companies interested in showing they are producing clean supplements, ... But our policy remains that athletes are responsible for what they put in their bodies.

We feel quite secure. Our athletes are well protected.

You have to remember where you want to compete. The schools at the lower end have not had that much success. If you want to compete, you must give your coaches and athletes the resources to do it.

Dusty Baker

You'd think he's left-handed when you watch him throw. He's one of the best athletes I've been around. People are surprised when they see him run. This guy can fly.

To be honest, he's never really fully recovered. I think he's an unbelievable athlete and still has potential to be a very good player. But I think him missing out of camp and getting hurt right away hurt him. I think ever since then, he's kind of been playing catch-up. There's a very fine line. At some point, you have to decide what's more important.

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.