Famous Quotes & Sayings

Both athletic directors and the conference commissioner started talking about the situation beginning on Monday, ... Once the hurricane was predicted to possibly impact the Houston area, we started looking at certain contingency plans.

Boston College is a really tough team, obviously. Really athletic and big and strong. But we're going to come out ready to play.

Boston College is a great team. They're going to be very dangerous in the NCAA Tournament and we knew that game was going to be physical because they're such an athletic team, really physical on the inside, and it's the kind of game back and fourth and we pulled it out in the end.

Brian is an all-around athlete. He can really haul. He's one of those guys that you've just got to let them stay in the game and get their rhythm, and he did that, I think.

Frank Beamer

Brandon Frye is ready. He's an athletic guy. Time to step up.

Brendan wrestled (Nicholson) a pretty athletic and pretty strong heavyweight from Marion-Franklin.

Brittany is a very good defensive player with a strong arm. She is very athletic and one of those kids I could play in the outfield.

Brittany (Foster) is really playing inspired basketball and using her athletic gifts to showcase her basketball talents. I'll tell you, when the league lights go on, she becomes a different player and she showed that tonight.

We saw some guys at the (Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) Media Day -- Rodney (Hughes) and Vernon (Edwards) -- and we talked. There are no ill feelings. I'm looking forward to seeing them. I'm thinking about giving a chest bump to Larry Summers. He and I used to do that all the time.

We're very dynamic. It's definitely the most athletic team I've had. It's the best offensive group I've had. It's the deepest team I've had.

We're very athletic at those positions, we just lack experience.

We're very athletic and very quick, and we use this to bring out the pressure on defense to get in our opponent's face and force them to turn the ball over.

Tom Burnett

We saw they had a very competitive athletic program, they were in a good location. It seemed to make sense for us.

Vick is Vick. He's an incredible athlete. We have to do everything possible to contain him and get enough guys around him. He can get away from anything.

We feel our athletic programs are worth it, that they are a great investment for the district. We think that athletics serve a huge function. We feel they help keep kids in school, with the grade and attendance requirements we have. We know the two schools benefit from it and we understand the (financial) constraints of the district.

Sebastian Coe

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.

To be honest, it was frustrating. It's hard. It's really hard for an athlete.

Towers is a very athletic team and we're going to have to slow down their inside game and keep them from running out on the break. They play a lot like West Hall and Paige Hanson so we know what to do, we just have to stop it.

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.

Kelvin Sampson

UNCP is a very special place to me, and I'm honored to be involved in a campaign that is as important to Pembroke's future as this is. Athletics is a huge part of the total college experience ... it plays a huge role in molding character and creating tradition.

Jim Brown

You have an athletic director who wants to bring us up-to-date,

You have to give Manchester credit. They're very athletic and they never make you feel comfortable.

You can look at it as flash versus fundamentals. They're the most athletic team we face, so we have to be fundamentally sound.

Chuck D.

We wanted to spread them out. We are much more athletic than most teams we play, and when we have played the ball wide, we've always got people who are well-disciplined in their positions back door.

We've had significant support from the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations), who have been closely involved over a period of time and are fully supporting the project.

We had a great turn out today. I hope we continue to have between 2,500 and 3,000 fans every game. The fans are the sixth player and it really helps the program and the players. We encourage everyone to continue to come and support IU women's basketball and all IU athletic sports.

Malik Rose

I've seen him do some athletic things and play well inside the 3-point line. But I've never seen him shoot like that.

Mack Brown

I've never seen an athletic performance from a quarterback like Vince Young did tonight.

I've never seen so many long runs on kickoffs. Darrell Blackman is an awfully good athlete.