Famous Quotes & Sayings

My grandparents on my mother's side owned a farm, and I grew up on the farm. If it wasn't for an opportunity to get an athletic scholarship ... to pay for my education, to this very day, I would be a farmer up in Pennsylvania with my cousins.

Now we have the finest athletic facilities. There's not a campus in the state system that has better athletic facilities then Slippery Rock.

Naturally most sportsmen who can make the transition have a fire in the belly. It's much like being a financial gladiator -- or an athletic gladiator.

Getting my first head football coach and athletic director job is something I've been looking forward to for a long time. Harmony has always been a place I wanted to try.

Gina is an outstanding goalkeeper. She is an athletic shot blocker, demonstrates a presence in the goal and has outstanding distribution skills.

(Former athletic director) Bill Wilder went to the school's board and church council and convinced them that they could have a football program for little money, ... They bought into that.

Franklin Field is pretty old anyway. This way, we're getting a new athletic facility for free.

Frankford was set up the same way as Green Bay, about 1899, ... The Frankford Athletic Association ran football, baseball and cricket teams, up until 1931.

From an athletic director's standpoint, the revenue these games should generate will be greater. The schools are really close and we're excited to play.

From what we've seen, they're not anything special. I mean, they're athletic as heck, but we definitely feel that we can beat them.

From what I hear from the defensive players, he's a tremendous athlete. Hopefully we can keep him bottled up.

Frank Robinson

From the word I got from the athletic trainers this morning ... he wouldn't be of use to me until we get home.

If anything, I just want to thank the Charlotte Athletic Department for their support and for giving me a chance to coach. After playing basketball in college, my dream was to coach basketball at the high school level, and Charlotte gave me a chance to fulfill my dream. I just want to thank everyone that made my dream come true.

I don't think we've seen such an athletic team over the course of the year. And obviously not someone as big and strong down low as Craig Smith.

I don't think we've ever beaten them. They're very athletic and will present a huge challenge.

I don't understand what the problem is. To me, it's just a matter of respect. If the athletic department wants to honor or pay tribute to an important media icon like Chucky, then we have to value and prepare for such a colossal undertaking.

I don?t think it will take a year for me to get on the field. I have confidence in my athletic ability, and I will get on the field next year. The draft is only the beginning for me.

Sebastian Coe

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

I felt good only down three. We are definitely a second-half team and we gave up a few baskets in the first half that were really bad bounces. Our strength is our team speed. We are pretty athletic and we can wear teams down.

I felt comfortable all the time, even when we missed the two free throws after Kimberly scored. West Laurens is a well-coached, athletic team, but they couldn't match up with us in the post.

Clark Kerr

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

If Blake (was) not a soccer player, he'd fit in on the football team as a wide receiver or defensive back because he's that athletic and, quite honestly, that tough.

Dick Schaap

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance, ... If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan. They changed the face of sports. But I voted purely on what I considered to be athletic ability, and if I had anything in the back of my mind it was, 'If you put these guys on a field and they played each other in 20 sports, who would win the most?' I think Jim Brown would win the most, and I think Chamberlain would be awfully close.

I can tell you that our coaches and athletic directors and presidents have all told me in the strongest terms where they want to be long term is they want everybody playing everybody at least once, ... They feel very strongly that if you're going to be in a conference, that any team not to be playing another team is just not the right thing to do. We have some of that right now and I think we're uncomfortable with that but we were left with little choice.

I found myself the first couple of years that I had to sell things to people. There was a lot of resistance, a lot of resistance on the team and some in the athletic administration.

I have had a lot of tough decisions since coming to the University of Cincinnati, ... I wanted a bigger, more complex institution with a large medical program, a robust athletic program, all the complement of colleges and departments that come with a full-service, comprehensive research institution. And I got it.

I don't hire anyone. My job is to help the institutions. When you go into a football search, an athletic director has a list of names. Frequently, I may augment that list because of my broad contacts.

Jill Wagner

I don't have a type. I've dated so many different types, different personalities, different looks - from athletic to very non-athletic. The only thing I have to have is someone who is really motivated in life and challenges me. If I don't have that, I get bored.

I didn't like our energy level. Maybe the fact we were playing our fifth game in eight days had something to do with that. I'm going to talk to the athletic director about that scheduling.

Anthony Johnson

I don't know what it is. For whatever reason, they find ways to beat us. They're just a very athletic team. I'm not quite sure if there's another team in the NBA as athletic as those guys. They're all 6-8 and they all block shots, they all rebound, they all get out on the break, they all handle the ball, they all make shots. You have to give those guys credit.

I don't know, we may see them again, we may not see them again. If nothing else it has help to prepare us for any other team that we may see who is extremely athletic and likes to press.

I don't know of a single athletic director in Section V ... (who) hasn't gone overboard trying to solicit women for women's teams. The problem is that a lot of them just are not out there.

I am excited for this excellent opportunity to go back to and coach at my alma mater. This will be an exciting challenge to be a part of the great athletic department here at Southern Utah and hopefully be an important cog in the future of this program.