Student Athletes Quotes

People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.

I think it's a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.

It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ohio State University puts out some very fine football players.

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

College football promotes drinking, dishonesty, and neglect of academic work.

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

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

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.

That's why I'm here at UCLA - to help them win a national championship.

The ACC is a great league.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

One of the biggest reasons I like coaching college ball is the kids. I feel I can impact players lives

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

All I know is, there's nothing we can't do at Clemson. I don't have to go somewhere else to win at the highest level, to recruit great players, to have great support - I really don't. I'm just really fortunate.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

The NCAA has to establish their own rules and enforce their own rules.

If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.

Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

I do support college athletes and the opportunity for them to be paid a stipend.

I'm saying when young men get to the NCAA Tournament, let's find a way to get their parents and their brothers and sisters a plane ticket and a hotel room. I don't think that's asking too much.