Tua Tagovailoa Quotes

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

Then you've got Georgetown, and I really just like everything about them. When I went down there with my mom, it really opened my eyes to what they were all about. I have to factor in what a school like that can do for me, even away from being a basketball player.

I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film.

I haven't had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

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

I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn't gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.

I'm really considering all the schools. It's not fair for me to only look at certain... programs just because they had players that are at my stature.

It was always like there was no doubt in anybody's mind that I was going to UCLA, so once UCLA started recruiting me, everybody started pushing me there.

Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.

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

I easily could've gone to a place like Florida Atlantic, but my dad pushed me to realize that my dream was to play somewhere big. He was right.

When I was 15 years old, the Duke-UNC game looked like the funnest game in the world to be a part of. So I chose to make sure I was a part of it for four years, and when I was at Duke, it exceeded all my expectations.

A couple colleges tried recruiting me without Marcus and I just shut it down right away. That was clear from the beginning. It was always a package deal.

It was hard because every kid from high school wants a chance to make the jump to the minors to see what they can do. But in the end, it wasn't difficult for me because I wanted to come to Rice. I could learn a lot more by coming here.

I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade.

I didn't even know about MIT until two weeks before I applied.

I can't stand USC. They get such media attention.

My senior year of high school, I probably wouldn't get so much out of it as if I went to college.

My decision to go to Duke wasn't a surprise to people who really knew me because I was always a Duke fan growing up.

I didn't even dream of going to college. College was not in my definition. If somebody told me I was going to play for the Missouri Tigers in 2009, I would laugh at them.