College Athlete Quotes

I wrestled in college at 165.

I think I'm a very versatile player, that's how I was at LSU.

My dad was actually a college boxer at L.S.U. and a good one, too. He was the captain of the boxing team.

I've been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I've been in that leadership role for a very long time.

I would say I was jock. I went to Sierra College. I was a big baseball player. Getting into the MLB was my dream - to become a left-handed pitcher for the Yankees. That's what I was hoping, but life kind of went the other way.

If you think I'm a loser, that I'm a bust, that's fine, but you don't know me. I don't have a problem with people thinking I was a bad football player. I wasn't a particularly good pro football player. But I was a great college player, and that's something.

All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.

Heading into college, I was mainly just a spot-up shooter.

I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

I wasn't going to play on defense in college.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I was a tennis player in high school and college.

I was an athlete in college, and Wall Street likes athletes because they're very competitive people that are willing to do anything to win. So I got a job at Bear Stearns in the summer of 2007.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

But because I could throw so hard when I got to college they made me a pitcher.

I think I might not be the best vertical athlete, but I think I'm quicker than people give me credit for. That was the biggest knock on me coming out of college.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

Zero is the number of minutes people predicted I would play my freshman year at Arizona.

I played volleyball in college. I was the girl next door, never wanted to be in the limelight.