Urban Meyer Quotes

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.

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

You see, some kids, the college coaches are calling them at all hours of the night, saying the same thing over and over again.

Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.

It still comes down to attracting players, and UCLA can attract players as well as any place in the country.

I was the lead recruiter at Louisville. I think I signed four or five guys before I left.

There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes, and then the product on the field suffers.

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

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

I think we can benefit from being in the ACC. It's a great basketball league. If anything, it helps our recruiting.

Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.

The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

I do support college athletes and the opportunity for them to be paid a stipend.

The World Cup, as an event, carries a lot of pressure, irrespective of the number of caps you have earned, and the pressure doubles when you play at home.

Every college coach I talk to won't say it on record, but everyone's thinking, 'Should I go to the league?' Because you don't have the same requirements. It's different. The hours are different.

In college, when you lose one game as a top team, it's like the end of the world.

With Serbia, there will always be pressure. We are the kind of players and people who do not know how to live without pressure. Even if we play against Brazil or some of the other bigger countries, we think we are better than them. That is the way we are. People expect us to beat the big teams, and we have plenty of pressure from within.

It is always pressure out there when you are favourite for the match.

College players make money for the colleges. You think they spend all that recruiting money to get the best students? Come on.

I know everyone wants to see India winning on home soil, be it in hockey or cricket. But sometimes with expectations come pressure, which can affect our performance.

Being the No. 1 pick isn't that important to me.

I think at Ohio State, we're professional athletes in Columbus.

What happens in college is every year, or every two years, sometimes every three, you get a new flock of graduate assistants that come in even though the head coach remains the same.