Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

A lineman's average weight when I played football was around 262 pounds. Today the average is 342 pounds. The players are less athletic which is an intense health risk - especially during hot weather.

The mistake is once a student-athlete, always a student-athlete. So you can't receive any funds or any goods once you graduate. I really believe it was a misinterpretation. I don't think it was an attempt to gain any advantages.

You're trying harder and harder, when less is more, really. I kept telling him that. The harder you try, the more you're 'amped up' and flexed, which takes away from your athletic ability. Now, he realizes he doesn't have to throw over 90 mph for his changeup to be effective.

(Benson) gave us a big lift. He's a great athlete. He's really started to blossom.

Believe it or not, yeah. They?re big and athletic and they?re very physical.

DeLoss Dodds

Bob (cares) about the whole person, not just the athlete. He's capable of handling anything in athletics that there is.

Everybody knows that Tommy is a wonderful athlete. I think last year is behind him and he's excited about the new year. If he can look at the indoor season as a means to an end, I believe he can turn it into a great positive for the outdoor season.

Everybody wants an athletic big, but the chances of getting an athletic big from someone are not that great.

Mickey Matthews

Everyone understands money, ... When the head of the household gets a big raise, theres more things you can do. If your athletic department needs money to operate, thats why you go play em.

Will Shields

For any athlete, you never can tell what's going to happen four years, five years down the road,

Scott Young

It's things you can't coach. You can try to take credit as a coach and say, 'Yeah, I coached him those moves,' but we'd all know that'd be a lie. That's just some God-given athletic ability, and he puts it to good use.

It's not the end of the world. There's a long way to go yet. We played well today. We couldn't limit their athleticism. They hurt us on the boards. They're bigger than us and more athletic than us, and we weren't able to delete that from their game. And we lost our composure at times.

It's not that we're doing anything different or they're doing anything different. I think we've got pretty athletic kids. The bottom line is that the team with the most talent usually wins, and, right now, I think we can put more basketball talent on the floor.

It's their linebackers. They just play downhill. Those backers are fast, athletic and make a lot of plays.

It's their athleticism. They do a great job with their traps, and you don't see it every day, so it's hard to prepare for. They're the most athletic team in the country, and it's difficult to prepare for that.

Dick Button

It's the event everybody can relate to. It's got beauty, it's got talent and it's got athletic perfection of the most extraordinary level.

It's surprising when a true freshman steps up like that. Both goals were just incredible goals. I knew he would be an athletic and dangerous player, but I didn't know he would come out and score two great goals like that.

It's the only country in the world where you can combine athletics and education. Most of the rest of the world, you have to make a choice.

It just comes in as another revenue stream for the athletic department. From a financial standpoint, the conference needs as many teams as it can.

It's always been about the team. I'm extremely proud of this team. Not many kids can say they've been part of 43 wins in two years. ... The great thing about athletics is it teaches us lessons about life. Today was a tough lesson.

Janet Evanovich

I may not be the most patient woman in the world, or the most glamorous, or the most athletic, but I'm right up there at the top of the line when it comes to resiliency.