Alastair Cook Quotes

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

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

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'm a big believer in the student-athlete part. I value the education and what it provides for you. Football is a vocation. Only 1.67 percent of these athletes go on to the NFL. An education provides you an opportunity for a career. A lot of people just don't get that. To say they aren't getting anything is misinformed.

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 wanted to go to college and play football.

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

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

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

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

Access to a college degree is critical.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

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.

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

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.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

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.'

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

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.