Ryan Leaf Quotes

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

I've always had coaching in my blood. My dad was a college coach at West Chester and Ursinus so I had a feeling all along that I would coach.

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 coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.

I've coached grassroots for eight years, I coached middle school, and I coached high school.

Just having the opportunity to play baseball and football at a major D-I level is a great opportunity.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

My life, even as a college student, has all been through the NCAA, and I'm telling you there's so much good that comes out of it.

If a guy is not serious about being a student-athlete then why force him into the college system. He's not serious about getting education.

I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

I would advise that if you can get out on loan and play football, it is the best path to go down.

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.

I thought I was doing very well at Florida. Then I get suspended. Then my head coach tells me to transfer.

I could see myself coaching at the high school level, but I'd really love to coach at UCLA. That would be a dream for me.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

Don't worry too much on pathways programs: good players find a way to get through to play for their country.

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.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.