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College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles.
I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.
When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.
My parents wanted me to become a national athlete.
College football is LSU's Tiger Stadium at night.
I've won at every level, except college and pro.
Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.
Horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid.
I don't know much about sports.Sports-- Rene Russo
I dream of one day winning a college basketball scholarship
I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.
The world is filled with great sporting events.
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.
How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
summer Olympics,
Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!
What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.
When the day inevitably comes that a Pac-12 team beats out an SEC team for the last playoff spot, you can be sure of two things: 1) Callers to The Paul Finebaum Show the next day will utter things never before heard on radio and 2) the SEC will go to nine conference games, stat.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.
High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates.
The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.
I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.
We play a violent sport.
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.
A decade after an average athlete graduates, everyone will have forgotten when and where he played. But every time he speaks, everyone will know whether he was educated.
Please, compete in the spirit of fair play, mutual understanding and respect. And above all, please compete cleanly by refusing doping.
I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.
There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.
If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
What we have here is a bunch of junior-varsity players trying to get on the varsity team.
The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.
Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home.
Sport is an essential element of education.
I don't pay much attention to sports.
Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.
There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.
Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
I can't ever remember anyone winning a tournament like that.
I like women's basketball.
In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
I like college football, but I'm a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.
Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.
Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
Football is the No. 1 sport in America.
College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.
Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.
I won the city scoring championship as a senior.
Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.
Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high
I went to my first college to play soccer.
I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.
The game honors toughness
You don't have to follow what most players do by going to the top school. You can do anything at any school you're at, as long as you're focused and you work hard.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
Individual honors come with team success.
I played a little basketball. Some football in junior high.
It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.
Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball.
I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
Each championship is unique and special.
The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.
Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.
You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.
I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.
[T]he important thing was that each Saturday they must win games and put The Academy on the sporting pages. For that, after all, was the final index to the rating of an American school.
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
I could fully express myself in lacrosse.
We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.
I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.
All sports for all people.
I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.
Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.
You will be competing against athletes from many nations. But, most important, you are competing against yourself. All we expect is for you to do your very best, to push yourself just one second faster, one notch higher, one inch further.
seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn't think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged
It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.
As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.