Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Pederson

Backups don't get a lot of praise or glory, but you get to that spot by working hard. He comes from a line of quarterbacks and an athletic family. It's bred in him and he's a sharp kid.

A wonderful, athletic talent, who is a nationally touted goalkeeper, Lauren brings great shot-stopping ability, a strong tactical understanding of the game, and overwhelming courage and tenacity. She will immediately compete for time in the net.

Athletics were an every day part of me and they were fun. It was natural for me to want to play in college.

Athletics means more than just winning games. We want our players be productive in society and to gain a sense of the things that are going on in the world today.

Athletics is a really important sport to us. We have to get them to the position where they can deliver medals and fulfil their potential. We can and do expect athletics to deliver more medals.

Athletics has found that when on the road, the other institutions drop 'college' or change it to 'university' on their own.

Athletics gives us visibility and creates part of the excitement of the campus and makes Nebraska what Nebraska is, ... That, I'm sure, helps enrollment over the long term. But I don't think whether we win or lose a game directly (affects) whether enrollment goes up or down.

Athletics are a funny thing. As players, you have choices. We made a choice (Saturday), last night we didn't.

Pete Lembo

At Lehigh, we gave out over $2 million in need-based athletic scholarships, need-based being the key, on our football team last year. We spent as much money as an awful lot of people do on scholarships and attacked recruiting in the very same way you would here.

That's no excuse. Young and athletic is a positive for them, but then there's young and inexperienced for them. If we're not as athletic as them, we have to beat them with experience; and obviously we didn't do that.

That's just part of being a professional athlete,

That's good for the school. Sports helps schools get recognition nationally, especially if the team has a successful season. Athletics brings the press.

That only becomes an issue if the athletic director makes it an issue. You squash that very easily if you get support from your athletic department.

Jalen Rose

That number won't haunt this club. They did a nice job of running. They had 36 points on the break. Having played in Denver, I understand how they feed off the altitude. When they get a long rebound, Anthony is taking off. They throw the touchdown pass to him and he's athletic and is a very good finisher.

That myth has been broken long ago, ... Everyone who follows the Olympics knows commercialism and corporate sponsorship is as much a part of the Olympics at this point as athletic competition. It is simply aesthetics, it is simply a veneer.

All any coach wants is to have the team play their best basketball at the end of the year. This group played as hard as they possibly could. Wilby was just a little more athletic than us. In a game like this, it came down to a couple of buckets.

We had to come through and show we're a team to be reckoned with in the (Oakland Athletic League). This is exactly what we needed. We had to instill confidence in ourselves and our school.

We had to come through and show we're a team to be reckoned with in the (Oakland Athletic League), ... This is exactly what we needed. We had to instill confidence in ourselves and our school.

Bobby Ross

We had three shots at him but he made a remarkable play on it. It was a remarkable athletic play,

T.J. is athletic and versatile. He can help us at the corners, behind the plate, in the outfield, or at second base. He has a lot of talent.

Lawrence Jackson

Those were all great guys. That's the one thing guys have to get quick experience. But I think we gain a lot of athleticism in the guys who replace them.

Mark Gottfried

This team is much more physical and athletic than that Stanford team. They're also a much better defensive team.

Brandon Smith

This was a big step for us to beat this team tonight. We're not going to play teams in the conference that are as athletic or as quick as they are.

What's exciting is these are good character kids, not just athletic talent. The next few years should be very exciting.

Chuck D.

We flashed last year at being athletic with big-play potential, but the youth showed itself, too. We were like riding a roller coaster, and that's the thing that drives a coach crazier than anything else. We were up-and-down, up-and-down.

Tom Izzo

We want to get back to running and wearing people down. This might be our most athletic team ever.

We want to dictate the tempo. We have a fairly athletic team. ... Our style of play, hopefully we can wear some teams down.

... I use that stuff now even more than ever. A lot of times when you first come in, you're getting by on your speed or your athletic ability. When you start to lose that, that's when you start going to that kind of stuff. At that time, those guys were using that stuff and I was lucky to pick it up at a young age.

Things went pretty much as expected. Our goal this year was to win all three championships - Southern Chester County League, Athletic Association of Catholic Academies and District 1. We had never done it before but, we did it this year.

They are an extremely athletic team and they're very well coached. But we match up well with athletic teams, for whatever reason. Hopefully, we'll go down there and play well.

They are an athletic team. We will have to box out well, and keep them off the offensive boards. We will need to play solid man to man defense, and keep turnovers down on offense.

They are a heck of an athletic team. The are the most athletic team we've played.

They are a five seed and we are a 12 and we had to play on their home floor and that's always tough in sectionals. They are a very athletic team, a very veteran team that starts five seniors. They are very unselfish and they rebound extremely well.