Bill Cosby Quotes

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

Let's say you work at a university or a college. You are a cog in the one of the great inequality producing machines this country has known.

Education was a big focus for me, before the show and during the show. I applied to four or five colleges and universities and got into three and was planning on going.

I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.

I'm proud of doing well at school and if there'd been any money I would have gone to college.

Both my children have degrees from UCLA.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

Access to a college degree is critical.

I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.

My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I graduated from college in 1980.

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

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

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.

Besides music, I was all school, school, school. And softball. I played the game since I was four, and I wanted to go to the Olympics for softball. I got a full scholarship through softball.

I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.