Athletic Scholarship Quotes

#1. I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

Scott Brooks

#2. I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

Michael Franti

#3. A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Billie Jean King

#4. I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

Gary Busey

#5. I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Uzo Aduba

#6. I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.

Nathanael Greene

#7. In McKinsey's world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.

Tom Peters

#8. It's been said that legends are those who shape change into greatness; shaping change is one of the hallmarks of genius.

Julian Pencilliah

#9. Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

Joshua Redman

#10. Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?

Saul Bellow

#11. I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?

Joe Dunthorne

#12. She was like quicksand-the more I struggled to get out, the faster I sank. So I'd decided to give up and embrace the sink down.

Kelley R. Martin

#13. My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Mariska Hargitay

#14. Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

Michael Bassey

#15. The internet is not for sissies.

Paul Vixie

#16. They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.

Merle Haggard

#17. Life is full of uncertainties. Ye must grasp the moment.

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