H. G. Bissinger Quotes

I went to college to play football, not to study it.

College football promotes drinking, dishonesty, and neglect of academic work.

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 don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

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

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

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

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

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.

When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to. Afterwards, I went to Cambridge to study law - in a way, I was carrying the academic hopes of my family, as Mum and Dad left school at 14.

In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.

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.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I got into Temple University on a track scholarship.

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I loved learning. I loved the comradery. And I loved football.

We can't go on appropriating more and more money to state universities without knowing that we're getting an excellent product back out of them.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

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.