Nerlens Noel Quotes

The opportunity to play for Duke University is great, and that's the reason I chose the school.

I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

It's unbelievable. I'm still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I'm actually representing an alumni that's network is around the world, and the people there are unbelievable.

Marist is a special place.

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.

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

I would love to add to the rich tradition that Duke University holds on and off the court, and play for one of the all time great coaches, Coach K. I would love to go up to Chapel Hill, play for Roy Williams, and chase back-to-back National Championships at North Carolina.

I think school is very important and I personally had a great experience at North Carolina, which helped shape me as a basketball player and a person. Every once in a while, you will have a player who can make the jump and have an immediate impact on the professional level, but most of the players who come out would absolutely benefit from going to college.

My overall point is that 'one and dones' are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize.

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

In college, I probably lost a total of about 11 games, and then I came to the Celtics and in my first three weeks we went on a nine-game losing streak.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

I have a strong attachment to Harvard.

The two places that I had most imprinted in my mind and in my memory were UCLA and Indiana. To play at one and coach at the other is unbelievable.

I never thought Marquis Teague would leave after a year.

I'm a big fan of Purdue as an institution and in its role of educating the next-generation workforce.

Roy Williams has been a great coach every game since the beginning at Kansas.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

I grew up in the Big East Conference for 30 years. We were a conference that was nothing. We were a bunch of schools thrown together and within five years we were one of the top two basketball conferences in the country.

I think USC is not a glamour job. I think that's an elite, elite job. Why? Within two hours of your campus you can get the best players in America, or as good as any.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

When it came down to it, I felt Penn State was an amazing school. I loved the campus.