College Competition Quotes

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want to discredit that. But I believe if I would have wrestled him in college, I would have beat him.

All the people who can't get into Michigan go to Michigan State.

It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just drilled and drilled and drilled, to the point that they just don't know why they want to go.

I didn't know if I would be good enough to play for an American college team. But I wanted to try.

If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

All the way through my high school and college there was never a doubt in anybody's mind the ACC was the best conference.

I went to my first college to play soccer.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

I always thought that I could play football at the college level.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

I used to represent Mount Carmel College in cultural activities, and a friend in the team told me to try my hand at acting.

College has become a business, and because of that, it can be gamed.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

One of my best friends got recruited to go to Miami, and another one went to South Florida. You're talking about two big schools in Florida, and I had to go all the way up to Buffalo. I was like, 'OK, I have to put in some more work.' That's just the way it has been ever since.

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.

There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.