“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsYearsLongRunningUsedStarsEnvironmentOne ThingThis WorldFootballCollegeComfortablePreparedNutsSeniorCollege FootballSenior Year Author:Donal Logue
“If entrepreneurs were running schools, instead of bureaucrats, schools would be teaching a lot more of the skills and mindsets found in this book. Since they're not, this book is a necessary antidote to a traditional college education.” IfsBookWould BeRunningSchoolFoundTeachingCollegeSkillsEntrepreneurMindsetTraditionalAntidoteBureaucratsCollege Education Author:Scott Banister
“My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.” TwoRunningSawsMiddleCollegeHorseMarkBeerParksTruckCouchesHeadingsKegs Author:Kevin Plank
“Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.” ThinkingMindI CanFactsRealityRunningAbleUsedLanguageDesignCollegeTestsEquipmentVirtual RealityLivestock Author:Temple Grandin
“My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.” BigsRunningRaceCollegeBrotherMy BrotherHanging OutRunnersConferencesMarathon Author:Tate Donovan
“At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.” RunningPresidentEducationCollegeCorporationsHotelFaltering Author:Leon Botstein
“Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents.” RunningAgeWantedSchoolParentEducationHeardAdviceCollegePrisonManageExecutivesRetirementOrphanDiscussingCorrectionsAsylumsRetirement AgeAlumni Author:Robert H. Jackson
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone” PeopleLongEnoughRunningGonePiecesStudentsCollegeMissionsRetiredParticipatingCollege Students Author:Tim Samaras
“As much as I'd like to think I'm an expert in quarterbacks I'm probably not. But, I think college quarterbacks are put in positions where they have to do a lot of the things that are done at the professional level. The collegiate quarterback probably does on average a little more running than a pro quarterback. But outside of that, I think they're faced with some of the same difficult decisions and choices.” ThinkingLittlesDoeDoneRunningChoicesDifficultDecisionLevelsPositionCollegeAverageExpertsNflQuarterbackDifficult Decisions Author:Ted Thompson
“I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.” TwoRunningSchoolThreeFourCrazyCollegeHigh SchoolMadGirlfriendSteady Author:Robin Williams
“I never stop running. I'm not one of the weenies who drop out just because the electoral college votes. I'm still in the race. I'm an extremely corrupt candidate and I stress that in case anybody in our reading audience is interested in sending me money.” StillsRunningReadingRaceCasesAudienceCollegeVoteStressCandidatesElectoral College Author:Dave Barry
“I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how I'm gonna roll out music, how I'm gonna play on tours, different strategies for releasing and marketing things - and that comes from being college educated and someone who's interested in that side of the business rather than only the music. If anything I think that's where the biggest direct influence comes from.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayRunningAbleSidesMy OwnDecisionCareersInfluenceCollegeDirectStrategyMarketingEducated Author:Hoodie Allen
“A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.” WritingHomeRunningMotherGuySleepCollegeGhostIslandsComing HomeUncles Author:Lorne Michaels
“Fancy computers are engaging in legalized front-running. The profits are clearly coming from the rest of us - our college endowments and our pensions. Why is this legal? What the hell is the government thinking? It's like letting rats into a restaurant.” ThinkingGovernmentRunningHellFrontsCollegeComputerProfitFancyRestaurantsRatsEngagingPensionEndowment Author:Charlie Munger
“Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.” NeedsRunningSportsCollegeUniversityCongressActiveFacultyAutonomyEmpoweredBackboneAdministratorsNcaaCollege SportsBylaws Author:Sally Jenkins
“Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.” KnowsWayShouldWellsIdeasGovernmentRunningUsedTeachKnow HowStudyCollegeRepublican Author:Bill Maher
“You have to run the football and stop the run, no matter what level you play at, whether it's high school, college or professional ranks. I'm a firm believer in that.” MatterPlayRunningSchoolLevelsFootballCollegeHigh SchoolNo Matter WhatBelieverFirm Author:Chip Kelly
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.” KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus Author:Sara Paretsky
“Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing the shot from the confederate soldiers after the second battle of Bull Run. Amazing to think that he heard that and I studied with one of his last law clerks in college. And that encapsulates almost all of American history.” ThinkingRunningLastsLawMotherHeardCollegeBattleShotsSoldierHearingRememberedBelovedAmerican HistoryUnclesBullsArdentClerksKentuckyConfederateAbolitionistLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“To me, when you got a 20-year-old running back or 21-year-old receiver that's just coming out of college and you're out working these guys, age really don't matter. So it's easy for me to see what it is. People say it's all about age, but to me, it's mind over matter.” PeopleYearsMindMatterRunningAgeGuyEasyCollegeComing OutReceiverRunning Back Author:Adrian Peterson
“Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle in creating more opportunity for minorities. I threw myself info the protests with all my heart. Ultimately, a group of us barricaded ourselves in the school for about 3 weeks so we brought the running of the campus to a halt.” HeartRunningSchoolOpportunityRolesGroupsWeekCollegeMy HeartCreatingIncreaseObstaclesLocalsMinoritiesProtestHistoricHaltCampusTuition Author:Lewis Schiff
“You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.” IfsRunningTogetherBlackBrainLordStudentsCollegeMadMagazinesCollege StudentsBlack HumorNational Lampoon Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."” WayRunningSchoolTeamFeetFootballCollegeBallsPursuitBalletAngleTweetFootball TeamCarrierCollege Football Author:Gary Busey