Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Walsh

Times were simpler, defenses didn't move as fast, and the quarterback was often the best athlete. Now he's being chased by the best athletes.

Robert M. Hutchins

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

We pride ourselves on being athletic and having a lot of heart and the girls really showed us that today. James Bay is a much bigger team and older and we did a lot of things right.

We preferred the original date, but it became an opportunity for us to help out our athletic department and specifically, the basketball team. This is good for everyone.

Rick Barnes

I thought they were great defensively, maybe as good a defensive effort as I've seen this year. They really realize their athletic ability. They can create a lot of problems.

I think we need to rebound most of all since they're a long, athletic team. They shoot really well, so I think if we rebound, we will be all right and everything else will fall into place.

I think that my mom is the athletic one, but when she was in school they didn't have anything that was organized.

I think that (building the business) was my only form of recreation. I never played golf. I never played tennis. I never did anything athletic after I left school. I ate, slept and thought of nothing but the business.

Tommy Bowden

I think a lot of athletic directors, administrators and teams will drink from the well we dug.

James Johnson

I think at the high school level, all guys have to work on their defense. He's athletic enough and long enough that if he turns the intensity up, he'll be fine. He's got all the tools to be a good defensive player.

Bonnie Langford

Dance never really goes away; it just reforms and reinvents, and it's become more athletic with new connection to fitness and sport. Dance used to have this exclusivity, but not any more.

We had some open shots and just didn't get them to go in, but they're so long and athletic and they close out on you pretty quick, so that makes it awfully tough.

We are going to aggressively pursue it. Immediately. We don't want to lose anything. State athletic championships have been a part of our town for a long time and we will work hard to make sure they stay here.

Mark Buchanan

We're athletic and we have good speed. When you are playing a power team like Ony, you have to have more.

We're just covering our bases with the policies. The booster club represents the greater athletic community. We're small, so that's a big voice in Mercer.

When you give a team that kind of early lead you have to battle back the whole time and it can take its toll. Pleasant is athletic and works hard at the game.

Larry Davis

With only seven home games in conference this season, each win is precious. For us to come out and get a win over the defending league champion, it is especially big. Chattanooga has a talented and athletic team. I'm very proud of what our guys accomplished tonight.

With so many teams going to taller receivers, Ashton physically has a chance to compete with those guys because of his size and athletic ability. He has the hips, the footwork and the flexibility that you look for in smaller corners, but he's big and physical.

We've played some very good, very athletic teams and no one's broken us down on the dribble like he did. So, I was just very impressed. I noticed him. He got 21 on us. So, I noticed him.

When she came into being our varsity keeper, she was really young. She's been able to meet the challenges with a great athletic response. She knows what she is looking at and what is required.

We laugh every year about the big S-word. I always think that there isn't anything more fundamental in industry, in athletics and surely in school communities as synergism. We're all feeling a bit of excitement with this group because measured by traditional standards, most people aren't going to have any expectations for us at all. Inside of our camp, we have real high expectations.

Florence Griffith Joyner

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

Doug Stanhope

I had no musical or athletic ability, and I wasn't particularly good looking. Comedy was something I could do for attention.

John Griffith

This will extend the gold standard to our athletic department as well.

This, ... will be the most disastrous blow to intercollegiate athletics in my lifetime.

Kate Ford

We always produced competitive teams and good people. The student-athletes move on to the next step of life and do quite well. They understand teamwork, they understand hard work, and turn into good people. I think we accomplished what the goals of those athletic programs are.

We love the way he plays the game. We're looking for somebody who can knock people off the ball for us and that can also stretch the field a little bit. He's very athletic for a big guy. He's got that speed, and that will keep some people honest. Primarily we liked how he knocked people off the ball.

There has to be a better understanding of where the athletic department sits in the university scheme of things,

David Lopez

We're trying to develop his leadership and vocal part. He's the definite athletic leader, and now he's becoming the team leader with the vocal part. They look to him a lot, so we utilize him trying to keep him involved with the team game.

We saw guys who had pretty good cars and they would lose a second or two on pit road and never be able to make it up. We decided to go after the more athletic side of it.

We knew (the Cougars) were deeper than us. We knew they were more athletic than us. But we had a game plan coming in, and for all but six minutes, we were able to stick to it.

We knew physically they're a better team than us. They've got two Division I post players and athletic guards. But we thought we were a better basketball team.

We knew Kyle coming up was an athlete. He's been a solid player for us this year, and we were expecting that out of him, since he was playing through the summer.