“If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.” IfsWantImportantCollegeSkillsIntellectualAthleteDevelopingGradesGoing To CollegeGood Grades Author:Tony Dungy
“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.” FirstsMadeAbleOrderChoicesStudentsCollegeAthleteGood ChoicesMaking Good ChoicesStudent Athlete Author:Condoleezza Rice
“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.” SchoolYouthCollegeDevelopmentHigh SchoolAthletePersonal DevelopmentCoachesCoachingAthletics Author:Donovin Darius
“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.” NeedsReasonKidsSchoolTeacherCollegeHigh SchoolAthleteCoachesFormerClassroomSpeakersPrincipalClicksAthlete MotivationalMotivational Speakers Author:John Towner Williams
“I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."” WritingSaidPlayCollegeBasketballAthleteCoachesFlatsBetter Than You Author:Frank Deford
“My dad was a college football coach, so we're a big athletic family. I was either going to be an athlete or an actor. As an actor, I hoped I would be able to bond the two.” TwoBigsWould BeAbleActorsFootballCollegeDadMy DadAthleteCoachesAthleticCollege FootballFootball Coach Author:Matt Barr
“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.” UseSportsPlayerExampleCollegeRevolutionDemandMachinesDollarsAthleteReportsProtestEpisodesContinuingDisturbingProfileExhilaratingVisibilityHigh ProfileCollege Sports Author:William C. Rhoden
“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsProblemHappensGamesSportsPresidentSimpleCasesTeamStudentsFootballCollegeBasketballUniversityAthleteOpponentsRevenueCrushedSimple ThingsBasketball TeamDisarmingStudent Athlete Author:Bob Costas
“College football is no more of a minor league than, say, the universities' schools of journalism, engineering or music are. We can argue at another time whether football should occupy the same space on campus as those disciplines, but for now, it does. The critical point is that a coach is less concerned with preparing athletes for the next level than he is with molding them to fit a system that helps him win games, keep his job and, eventually, move on to a position with a more prestigious program.” ShouldDoeHelpingSchoolJobsMovingNextGamesWinningSpaceLevelsPositionFootballCollegeDisciplineFitConcernedProgramUniversityAthleteCriticalArguingCoachesJournalismLeagueEngineeringMinorsPreparingCampusNext LevelAnother TimeCollege FootballPrestigiousMolding Author:William C. Rhoden
“I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.” MenMindMomentsYoungCollegeUniversityAthleteBunchCompromiseYoung ManNflPairsThat MomentBitesCheeseTrapsJordanSharksUnforgivableMind Boggling Author:Eddie George
“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.” IfsThinkingMenAgeActorsPayCollegeHe ManPaidAthleteLawyerDeanAccountants Author:Julianna Baggott
“College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.” ParentCollegeTreatsAthlete Author:Billy Kennedy
“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.” PeopleWorldInspirationalKindIdeasOpportunityGivenChanceCollegeBasketballFinancialAthleteAvailableAll KindsCapabilityWorlds ApartBasketball Is LifePro Athlete Author:Michael Jordan
“I didn't know that you could race your bike until after college. I didn't know anything about cycling except that I rode my bike from class to class or to my friend's house. But here I am an athlete, I ran, I played soccer, I swam and people are riding their bikes and racing them? I had never seen a bike race.” PeopleKnowsHouseRaceClassCollegeMy FriendsAthleteSoccerRanRacingRidingBikeCyclingHere I Am Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I was a runner and a soccer player living in Okinawa, Japan and I didn't have recruiters coming in to recruit me for sports. So how many kids out there and planning to go to college are super stud athletes but don't have a chance because they come from some podunk town and no one comes to watch them?” KidsSportsChanceWatchesPlayerCollegeTownsAthletePlanningSoccerJapanRunnersRecruitSoccer PlayerStudsOkinawa Author:Kristin Armstrong
“Most of the time, I'm fighting guys who are 22 years old, former college wrestlers, athletes, kids who are in much better shape than me. Often people who are much bigger and wider than me. It can be dispiriting at first.” PeopleYearsFirstsKidsGuyFightingCollegeShapesBiggerAthleteFormerWrestler Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have to be gung ho athletes and sensitive artists, studious nerds and gregarious social networkers, future rulers of the universe and selfless altruists.” PeopleWantWellsTwoDifferentUseSeemsTogetherArtistUniverseSocialCollegeAthleteSensitiveCharacteristicsCandidatesSelflessRulersNerdDifferent PeoplesExclusiveSocial NetworkGregariousWell RoundedStudious Author:Rebecca Goldstein