Tom Herman Quotes

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.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.

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.'

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.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

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

I grew up in an athletic family. My dad played and my brother currently plays professional soccer, so I'm athletic.

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.

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.

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

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

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

I grew up playing every sport.

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 played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

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 was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

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

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

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