Charlie Weber Quotes

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

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

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

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

Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'

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

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

I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

I played soccer in college, at this little school in North Carolina called Campbell. It was the only place in the world where they would offer to pay for everything.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

My dream was to play football at Notre Dame more than anything.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'

At the end of the day, I grew up wanting to play in the SEC.

It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.

I'm so happy to be here and I want to bring championship football back to the University of Northern Colorado.

Playing for Midland, that helped me get to Arkansas. It was really all I ever wanted to do.