Collegiate Athletics Quotes

BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

I wrestled in college at 165.

The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

There's a reason Montana produces more SEALs than any other state. As a collegiate athlete, I enjoyed the mental and physical challenges Division I football presented.

Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.

I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.

My teammates at Duke - all of them, black and white - were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball.

Playing four years of college, when you're playing for someone other than yourself, I think it makes it a lot more fun.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

I've won at every level, except college and pro.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

My best friend in the pros is Brandon Davies, who I played with at BYU.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

I first started pro wrestling right after I got out of college at the University of Michigan, so I was in that frame of mind where I wanted to wrestle with my brother.

He knew I enjoyed the relationships of college basketball. All along, he was the wise one.

My time at Oklahoma State and in Stillwater has been amazing. I met some amazing people, got to play with some great guys and great teammates, and I built some strong relationships and bonds there.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.