University Sports Quotes

People study and play sports side by side. So, most of the talent exists in schools and universities.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

There was a point in time in Wisconsin football when people used to just go to watch the band.

Stanford's an amazing, amazing school. It was an extraordinary soccer program.

I had role models in my community, guys that were older than me and played at university or on the national team. Eli Pasquale was always around UVic when I was a young player, and the national team was around Victoria a little bit, so I got to watch those guys and learn from them.

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

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

I played volleyball for Brown University and loved playing there. I played all four years and was captain my senior year. Second team all-Ivy, academic all-Ivy. I really loved it. When I was graduated, I figured that was it.

I played varsity soccer at Yale and continued playing at Cambridge.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

In high school, the drama program shifted to musicals, and that's not a skill set I possess, so I let sports be my outlet, and I agreed to play football in college. I was invited to play at the University of Missouri, and I played there for a year, but when all of the talented people are plucked and put in one place, it's scary; it's tough.

You wish there was more consistency about how they do things in the NCAA.

I went to North Carolina to play football.

Any way that I can help the Harvard football program and Harvard is great.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

I never thought the NCAA violations for the phone call would ever rise to the level it did.