Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not really big (on the offensive line), but we are pretty athletic up there, ... All three of the quarterbacks do something the other one doesn't do. ... Brock's smart and doesn't make mistakes. He bounces back well from adversity.

Phil Knight

why does a 67-year-old guy who got his start running an athletic shoe company think he can enter a field famous for gobbling up fortunes?

To be recognized by the Hall of Fame committee is, to me, really rewarding. The high point of my athletic career was my four years at Brandeis.

Thomas will actually be a little more athletic than their guy. But because of their size, Tim Boss may have to be a factor.

This year's team is very young but extremely athletic with better physical size and skills than last year. Several freshmen will have to step up and start from day one. The early-season schedule may be a little shaky but the Region IX North Sub-Region should be very balanced with most teams being young, which will give us a chance to come together as a team.

Tayshaun Prince

We like man-to-man. But with the long, athletic guys we have, and the quick athletic guys we have, hopefully it shouldn't be a problem for us to mix it up. But it'll be something new for us, and we'll see how it works.

We were right with them through our No. 4 or 5 pitchers. I?d feel very capable of beating them playing our top guys. I am excited about our potential. We have some very athletic kids.

Jim Tressel

Tyson is a wonderful young man, who loves the game of football and loves being at Ohio State and following in the footsteps of his dad. Our players, coaches and everyone in the Ohio State Athletics Department family are praying fervently for his recovery.

Tyrone is dangerous. He's a heck of an athlete. Bensalem did some things to take him away.

We have become too selective, too elitist, too talent-mongering as I like to say, trying to select the athletic wheat from the athletic chaff.

We have become a pretty good defensive team. The kids are committed to good team defense. We were concerned about Centralia's athletic ability, but we played sound defense.

Frank Carroll

When people look at figure skaters, they think of beauty and music. The guys' athletic prowess isn't as appreciated as much as the beauty of the girls.

We got into too deep of a hole and they're athletic enough to keep a lead.

Andy Dick

Weather is always going to be a problem. It's probably an athletic director's worst nightmare. You set schedules in stone a year before and hope everything goes well.

The one thing that's so great about Pam is that she never gets rattled. Things get hectic around here sometimes and you have all of these press conferences called with coaches being released and all of the other normal day-to-day environment within an athletic department.

We believe that we have three candidates who would be not only the top choices for the Drake athletic director but for any athletic director's job in the country.

We came here to win medals; when my guys are in tears it's tough.

Joe Dumars

We like the fact that he is young, athletic and ready to step on the floor and help us immediately.

Tom Coughlin

First and foremost, he's an outstanding athlete. He has to be or else he wouldn't be in this position. He takes great care of himself. He's a competitor by nature. He has a great sense of humor, which I think keeps everything in perspective for him, good or bad. But, to play as long as he has played and to be on the verge of breaking these records is a tremendous accomplishment. For someone to be in a position that he's in and having done this for so many years and continue to be excited about coming to work every day and the opportunities he has is really a remarkable thing.

John Scott

Tyler tested well, and with a year in the weight program, he has the athletic potential to play defensive secondary for the Yellow Jackets. Tyler will also work as a punter this fall.

Today, the membership, through its delegates to the assembly, said that not only is this something that they want, but something that they need. It will go a long way toward cleaning up the growing problem of students transferring for athletic reasons and those schools who market themselves to students who make themselves free agents.

Timber Creek's guards are athletic but young. So we weren't necessarily trying to take the ball off of them, just confuse them so they made mistakes.

Jerramy Stevens

Tight end is a position where if you are a good athlete, teams are ready to get the ball to you now. They are looking for the tight end a little more than they have in the past.

Tiffany rebounds well and she's becoming a better passer. She's always been an athlete, but she's working on her skills to improve her basketball game.

Troy is different. He is not what people think of as your typical professional athlete.

Trinity likes to get up and down the floor. They are very athletic and they like to run. If we want to get the win we can't turn the ball over and we will have to control the boards.

When I saw him play in high school, he was a real athletic guy, he really played more inside than outside.

We needed this one. I told my athletic coordinator (Orlando Garcia) before the game that this was probably the most time I've spent preparing a team for a game.

We need everybody in the lanes, getting a body on somebody. When you're playing guys who are long and athletic like Pitt, coach (Bo) Ryan says you can still stop them by putting a body on guys.

We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. They like to get lots of high-energy plays, and it's going to be our job to contain them. It's going to be a really tough game.

We know they are a great team, and a real athletic team, so we can't let them make that a big advantage. We'll really have to focus on keeping them off the boards and not letting them get out and run.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors.

Justin Smiley

I was one of the first ones down there and if I could have gotten a hand on him, I would have brought him down, but he is a pretty athletic guy. That's what happens when you get a bunch of 300-pound guys trying to bring down a 200-pound guy.