Allen Iverson Quotes

Playing golf led me to Georgetown. I played on the women's team there.

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 have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

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.

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

I wasn't going to play on defense in college.

I've been very fortunate and blessed to have been able to play football at LSU.

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

The opportunity to play in the Big Ten was one that I could not pass up.

Coming out of high school, however, I wasn't a decorated recruit. As a result, I found myself one month from signing day with only two scholarship offers and they were from the Mid-American Conference.

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

I would love to join Big Blue Nation and play for Coach Calipari at Kentucky, and I would love to join my close friend Michael Porter Jr. and play for coach Cuonzo Martin at Missouri.

I didn't pick wrestling over football. My coaches picked that for me. I never wanted to wrestle in college. I always wanted to play football. They thought I was too small, but I had a lot of heart.

When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics.

Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

I grew up dreaming of being a Hurricane and I'm so proud of playing the number of games I have for them.

I could have played water polo in high school instead of football. I would have gone to Stanford like my other buddies from Irvine who played water polo and ended up going to Stanford, you know.

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

Mark Fox is always criticized recruiting: he can't keep the Georgia kids home. What that means - he's not cheating and paying. That's what it means.

Football was the best route to obtain my independence.

I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

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

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.