Will Rogers Quotes

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.

My life, even as a college student, has all been through the NCAA, and I'm telling you there's so much good that comes out of it.

It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.

I'm looking forward to talking to Bill Parcells, too, and to seeing how that marriage with Jerry Jones goes.

I don't want to be a Major League coach.

At the minor-league and major-league level, you know how important your coaching staff is, but in a big market it becomes absolutely huge.

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

I want to thank the people at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky for giving Ellen and I an opportunity to coach at three great institutions.

It's the duty of the federations to make sure that the funds reach the athletes properly. They need to make sure that the athletes get proper facilities so that they can win the medals for the country.

UCLA will always be involved with great players, and those players always draw scrutiny. That's just the way it is.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

I coach at Rutgers University and help out there as a part-time assistant coach. I feel like the coach is kind of in me, and it would also be great exposure, so I'd be down for it, for sure.

I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.

I want to help the MLS grow and play well.

My relationships with the Duke coaches were the best, and they made me a priority.

I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

A coach was managing the Newbury team, and he wanted me to play for his local team, and from there, I did it at district level, and then I got picked for Southampton.

Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.

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

Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.