Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sister Souljah

Nobody sent you to this college to be ordinary. Most of you will graduate and do what someone tells you to be, but how many of you will be extraordinary?

Growing up I was a soccer player. I didn't even watch college football until my junior year when I started getting mail and then I wanted to know these teams.

Getting the kids to college is what I'm most proud of. I was here for the kids more than anything. I always told our guys to be goal-oriented, and I now I'm doing the same thing, being goal-oriented.

Foster also reflects the frustrations which so many colleges feel about the structures imposed on them, which often hinder rather than help our services to learners.

From the 10th grade until now, I've learned a lot more about college and how things worked. I really thought I could get a full scholarship wherever I wanted to. Unless they really need one, they won't offer you.

Jim Calhoun

I don't think we shot well (38.7 percent), but I think we played well and yet it took us 30 minutes to shake them, maybe 35 minutes to shake them. That's just by their tenacity and how hard they played. Providence has a young team. The three guys who I think played really well for us happened to be seniors and that makes a difference in college basketball.

I enjoyed Michigan State, and camaraderie with my teammates was great. About halfway through the season I decided that I just didn't want to be there after the season. I didn't want to spend all of my college years there.

Matthew Fox

I'm a huge football fan. I played football through college so I know the game well.

Tim Robbins

I'm a huge fan of college basketball, and I take my kids to the Final Four every year. I got lucky this year that my alma mater is in it.

Sylvester Croom

I looked out there in the fourth quarter and there wasn't a single player on the field who had ever played in a college football game before. I'm sure they made some mistakes, but overall they performed well.

I love being home again. WVU (West Virginia) and Marshall definitely are in the running (for college). When it's time, I'll sit down and make sure I make the right decision.

I have a great opportunity with Fox covering high school football out there on TV, and then I'll be doing Fox sports radio as a college analyst,

I have a daughter in college, my son is still in high school, and my parents live in Smithsburg.

I have kids sign the walls so they would feel like it's their place too. We get a lot of families and college students and we are hoping they will come back this year.

I had trouble getting my emotions together all through the day. He's been like a father figure to me. He convinced me to come here. He showed me how to handle the college life, and we still keep in touch today. It was different seeing him on the opposite end, but it was good seeing his face again.

I hated special teams in junior college, but up here, I actually like it. I learned to step it up a notch on defense and special teams. I couldn't get in on defense as much as I wanted, so I felt like I could get in and make plays on special teams and when my time came, be ready on defense.

I hated leaving, ... But the desk job wasn't exciting enough for me. It had come to a head where I needed to either go back to get my college degree or stay there 'til I retired. Which would have been very boring.

I give him all the credit in the world. It's tough for a person 42 years old to come back and get his degree. That shows the importance of a degree. I've known many friends that over the years have gone to college but didn't finish their degree. And they always feel like there's something missing.

Reggie Bush

I feel like if I would have made the pitch and we'd scored, it would have been the greatest play in college history.

Kevin Allen

I feel that it's important for the college environment and for the students to be exposed to the issues and opportunities the world has to offer. We could all stand to be educated and learn about different cultures.

Shannon Brown

I feel like it was meant for me to be in college. Not at all am I disappointed or mad at coming back. College is one of the most fun times of your life, and I'm having an excellent time at Champaign.

Shannon Brown

I feel like it was meant for me to be in college, ... Not at all am I disappointed or mad at coming back. College is one of the most fun times of your life, and I'm having an excellent time at Champaign.

Christopher Paolini

I didn't have a lot to do. Dad felt I was too young to go to college; I didn't have a job, and the nearest town was some 20 miles away. I needed a way of entertaining myself. Writing was what I settled on.

Billie Armstrong

I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!

Spencer Clark

I can't imagine a better date for college students, especially because student tickets are just $8.

If I wasn't a pro player, I would have gone to law school because I love to argue. When I was in college (at the University of North Dakota), my major was criminal justice and it was something I enjoyed.

If this team were a college program, this would smack of ... lack of institutional control,

I have been the luckiest guy in the world, because I had the same deal in high school, college and the pros, ... We won championships every time. With all the success my teams had, I can't complain about anything.

I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal Bando. I decided to go to college instead, and it worked out pretty well.

Chuck Close

I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't imagine what kind of ego it would take to want to have a 9-foot-high picture of yourself.

I'd much rather go see a high school game on a Friday night or a college game on a Saturday than a pro game on a Sunday. These kids do it because they enjoy the game of football.

I'd like to play it in high school, then try to do it in college and see where it takes me.

Brian Billick

I don't know of a football field, pup, community, Pop Warner, junior high, high school or college that that's not a touchdown. But evidently not in the NFL.