Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Harold E. Varmus

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

Julie Adams

We try to spend a lot of time together. Even with athletics and her friends, we always make time for each other.

We expect merit will determine who will play and who will lead. But coaches and athletics administrators themselves are not always selected, it would appear, entirely on their merits.

He really is a model citizen and a model student athlete.

Great athlete. What we were doing when we signed Gary was a little more of using our quarterback in a run-pass way.

I think our league has a philosophy and a stance on what they think athletics should mean to their institutions and overall as a league. I think that's what they want to do, and I respect that greatly.

Roger Staubach

I have the same feeling that I had as an athlete. We're just hoping we can be competitive. I'm very much committed to making sure this works. . . . If you put the right people in the right places, miracles can happen.

I really do think it will change for the better. First and foremost, it truly is a community problem. It's about academics. Athletics fall in the shadows when it comes to the boundaries. Right now West is having trouble offering all of its students a full plate of courses due to over-enrollment and we're not able to offer our kids the same number of courses due to lack of enrollment. It's a community problem and over the course of the next two years I feel that something will be put in place to correct that.

He's a real good athlete. He can run the ball real well, and he gets the ball to his receivers, so he can hurt you in a lot of different ways.

Danny Smith

He's a phenomenal athlete. We've got to get him the ball more.

He?s an awfully good quarterback that happens to also be an outstanding athlete.

He's an outstanding athlete. He fits into our team excellently.

He's an incredible athlete...he's got a lot of stamina. He logged a lot of minutes as a freshman. He can handle it.

But instead of just throwing it all in or feeling sorry for herself, she was determined to find a solution. That one phone call told me right then and there I was working with a very, very special kid and athlete.

He's such a gifted athlete, all it took was a few fundamental changes. It's awesome being around J.J. because we're always talking about golf and watching the Golf Channel. It's exciting to go to the course everyday.

Vince Young

He's the Heisman. All hats off to him. He's a phenomenal athlete.

He's the hardest in the nation to wrestle. He's fast, strong and a great athlete. He has everything that I have to offer, maybe more.

He's just a tremendous player and is such a naturally gifted athlete.

He's just a good athlete. He throws surprisingly well and he can run. That's the kind of guys I like.

He's quite an athlete, isn't he? He can pitch game one, he can run balls down in the outfield, he can drive in runs. We're happy to have him, put it that way.

I don't know if Coach O'Brien will ever put athletics over academics.

I don't know how to explain it. He is just an unbelievable freaky athlete. He's capable of doing that every night; he really is.

Socrates

Athletics have become professionalized.

It surprised me, and it didn't surprise me. Scott is a natural athlete. He's done this before.

Derrick Williams is a great athlete. Everyone expects a lot from him.

Derrick Williams is a great athlete. Everybody probably expects a lot of him. He's going to make big plays here.

Bobby Cox

Davies is a good athlete. He can bunt, he can run and he can hit.

Dan is a winner. He believes in winning, he believes in competing, and he thinks he can help Georgia Tech as we lift our athletics program to the next level in the future.

Dan is a great athlete. He's a very versatile guard. He can take you off the dribble and shoot the three. You can't sag on him and you can't play him tight.

It's not as if Athletics runs in a way so that they track a dollar to an event. All their revenue goes in a pile.

Jacques Rogge

They gave standing ovations to every single athlete.

There was some good and positive response from a few companies, individuals and my former school, Lodge, but I still haven't heard from the AAA (Amateur Athletics Association) about the Solidarity Fund.