Student Athlete Quotes

College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day.

It was a dream come true to play for the University of Pittsburgh. My experience as a Panther is something that influences my life every day and I want to pay that forward.

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.

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

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

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.

I was in school to play basketball; I wasn't trying to be a doctor. It's hard to talk about the NCAA rules and everything that happened in the past because I've just been focused on practicing and getting ready... I was trying to reach my dreams, and that's to play in the NBA.

When I got to Cal, they tried to put me in safe classes, things I could succeed at. I went to Cal for an education. That's definitely problematic. You see athletes taking majors that don't add up to anything.

After everything that's happened, I'm sitting here in my last year of college football. I'm just happy. I'm in a good spot.

Even in high school, I was balanced. It's just that my run plays were dynamic.

College, our job is to get guys to get better. Work hard, get better and be in position so when your time comes you get to play in the NBA.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

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've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.

Carl Pendleton's the absolute best. He's everything you want in a student-athlete.

If I was a second-team player, I probably would have gone to uni.

It's just a great school and they have a history of developing big men. Georgetown is definitely a great option for me.

If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.

The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.

At the University of Miami in the U.S., people thought I was there only because I was Bob Marley's son. I had to prove myself on the football field and soon earned the respect of my peers.

I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.

I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.

A freshman has only about 25% of his degree completed. They go off to play professional basketball, and to assume they will come back and get the degree done five, six, seven years later, I don't see that happening.