Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Deford

Everybody loves sports. It's awfully hard to be critical of these athletes -- they're young, they're strong, they're beautiful. You want to celebrate these guys.

Students were playing on the court with black sole shoes or shoes that marked the court. When you do damage to a court like that.it doesn't look good, and if they wear too much, then our athletes don't get to practice on fast courts,

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.

They had a lot of big, fast athletes and we just weren't able to keep up with them.

London Fletcher

They do a tremendous job on special teams. They are three gifted athletes out there playing on special teams and they take it serious. Those are three guys who can definitely play football in regular situations.

They didn't mean any disrespect. They were excited but I think those athletes would do things differently now.

They are as advertised. When they can get to you with just three or four guys rushing, and they don't have to blitz or pressure, they have such tremendous athletes they can lock you up on the outside.

They are definitely Division I athletes and soccer players. They're a kick to have on any team.

They are both great athletes and this is a situation where it has worked out for both of them. Dante is having a great year. I'm pleased for him and want to wish him well.

They are small, quick and dangerous in transition, and they can rebound well because they have great athletes and speed.

Jack Warner

They are seconds off school records and are buried in the pack. That shows how talented the athletes at this meet were.

you don't see many minority athletes in our program.

You don't run into athletes like him very often. He just refused to lose. But what I liked best about him what his character. He is a real down-to-earth kid.

Brian Perkins

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This meet isn't big because of the number of athletes they bring in, it's prestigious because of who they bring in.

There will be non-stop action. We've got good college teams and we've got some of the best high school athletes in the city. There will not be one lapse from the time we start the running events at 12 noon until we finish at 6.

There were no tryouts for the team, because the athletes were playing all over. They were chosen based on their stats throughout the year and by recommendations from Australian coaches.

There were a lot of very good teams and athletes here today. We had a good day to finish were we did.

Dana White

There were a lot of misconceptions about the sport and the athletes. This allows them to look in and see how hard they train, what type of athletes and people they are.

Richard Wilson

There was this longer term issue of sorts of the protecting the health and welfare of student athletes here. And, I simply want to do everything I can do keep this from happening again.

Lloyd Carr

There's a lot of great athletes, skilled athletes that are returning punts, ... The one thing I've seen in recent years at the college level is a tremendous and significant change in special teams play. The time spent obviously has increased in that phase of the game, giving those skilled athletes the opportunity to make big plays in the kicking game.

Jim Bunning

It's very important for our kids. Like it or not, these athletes serve as role models for our children.

I want the opportunity to work with student athletes at Lakeland and the chance to be around them.

I try to point out to our players that, despite our record, we are a good team. We have athletes who can score, but the key is stopping teams on the defensive end.

Jerry Angelo

It used to be you never took a tight end in the first round. But they're looked at as athletes now. They're looked at as a skill position.

It used to be, most of your great athletes in the state only played football. Now if you get the best kids from Florida, you have a chance to win a national (basketball) championship. I don't know if you could say that before.

It will be more like linebackers than most of us look like now. That's the trend anyway, better athletes playing golf.

It went well. We had 34 schools and 900 athletes here and we got them out of here by 4:15.

It went great. We had a beautiful day, and all our athletes did well.

Carol White

The vast majority of athletes and their parents have no frame of reference to understand the recruiting process. They figure it out after it's too late. I'm trying to do what any good teacher would in give them enough information to where they can control the process instead of the process controlling them.