Dick Vitale Quotes

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.

The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

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.

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

What is the NCAA going to do a program if a kid leaves before two years. You can't control it. The NBA is the one that has to control it.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.

NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's a predatorial environment that their rules have created, which makes people feel undervalued.

The structure of college basketball never made sense to me. The coach is the star and you get up at 5:30 A.M. to run before class. That was never appealing to me.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

Nobody talks about it. But everyone knows that if you signed at Michigan or UNLV, you were viewed one way. If you signed at Duke or Indiana, you were viewed another way.

If you're not a Duke fan, you're not going to like me.

I was how I was in college because I had to be. I played angry. I played hard. I stepped on guys' chests, I hit a game-winner against UConn.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

There's three banners I want to hang - ACC regular championship, ACC tournament championship, and, of course, the national championship.

My guess is everybody loved Draymond Green. How do you not like a guy like that? A pretty well rounded player in college.

If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!

I like to watch college basketball, high school - don't matter who it is.

The NCAA has its rules. It's our job to abide by them.

I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about the NCAA rules and everything that happened in the past because I've just been focused on practicing and getting ready... I was trying to reach my dreams, and that's to play in the NBA.

First it was football, then basketball. I still think about going back to college and playing basketball. Another romantic thing was that I wanted to join the Army, but it was only because I loved the uniforms.

I think American fans, they know more college guys than guys overseas.

Before I joined the Clippers I played basketball at the University of Kentucky. There the game of basketball is very important. It is important for the fans. There is not a lot to do there so they really support the team. It is hard to describe. The fans, the coaching staff, the basketball program is everything and the kids who go there love it.

I can play three positions - five in college - but realistically three in the NBA.

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