Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

By adding Houston to the Big 12, all it does is make the Big 12 a power conference.

Iowa State's a great team; I know how tough they are in Ames.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I appreciate the history and tradition of Notre Dame. I also appreciate the history and tradition of Oklahoma, and I have been part of building that tradition here.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

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 I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

Lee May's about the same age as me; he's got about the same stats. So how come he's making about one-eighty, two hundred thousand, and I'm the best damn paid player in the game? I'll tell you why: Because I put the meat in the seats!

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

I've always been a great fan of the state of Pennsylvania. One of the people - one of the people that I admired the most in college athletics was Joe Paterno.

The ACC is a great league.

People who know me know that I'm a rabid fan of the Kansas Jayhawks. My quirky habit is that every Kansas game is on my calendar, and, more often than not, I will plan and schedule flights around them so that I can engage and watch. I have already brainwashed my family to be Jayhawks fans.

The NBA made a big move to become more stylish and business-oriented a few years back, and it's made a big change.

There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.

The Big Ten is brand strong.

I will always root for the Sooners.

I love college football. I've been involved with college football since 1953. That's a long time as a player, coach and 30 years in television.

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.