Quotes About College Athletes

#1. You know what's sad about this? Not the gambling, but the best way to reach college athletes is the Cartoon Network.

Jay Leno

#2. One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players' lives. I like the fact that they're student-athletes. I like to see those kids graduate.

Rick Majerus

#3. Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

John Heisman

#4. I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

Donovin Darius

#5. Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.

Avijeet Das

#6. We evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others).4 Our stereotype of men holds that they are providers, decisive, and driven. Our stereotype of women holds that they are caregivers, sensitive, and communal.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. Education is the greatest manifestation of the innate potential of human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

Joe Biden

#9. To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Cecelia Ahern

#10. College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

Billy Kennedy

#11. The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.

William C. Rhoden

#12. I don't think drugs should be illegal. I'm not an advocate of everybody running out and using drugs, but I think the drug wars are not working, there's millions and millions of dollars being spent on the drug war that we're never going to win.

Sonny Barger

#13. What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

Condoleezza Rice

#14. The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Nancy Astor

#15. Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.

John Williams

#16. Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.

Rebecca Lobo

#17. Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex.

Emma Watson

#18. The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

Sally Kirkland

#20. I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

Jeff Probst

#21. The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

Shulamith Firestone

#22. If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans ...

Julianna Baggott

#23. I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all.

Lolo Jones

#24. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

Pat Toomay

#25. At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.

Elizabeth Bowen

#26. Personal honors never meant much to Bill Russell, one of America's most successful athletes with 2 college titles, 1 Olympic gold medal and 11 - count 'em, 11 - N.B.A. championships with the Boston Celtics.

George Vecsey