John Chaney Quotes on People (4 Quotes)

These youngsters came from not just a humble, but a terrible background. And this university made it possible to reach out and pull in people of that kind of background. Thats something that I came here for. And Im hoping this university will stay its course.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

When it suddenly happens, they're going to surprise some people. Believe me, there's some talent on that floor. They're going to get it done. By tournament time, this is not a team I want to play.

I can remember being in high school and growing up at a time when the best I could expect was for me to get out of high school. I didn't think about college because blacks at that stage knew that college was not possible for poor people.