College Quotes (2837 Quotes)

College is neither good for its own sake nor necessary . . . and that will not be the topic of my persuasive argument research paper.

I have to announce that on March 24 I will hold a consistory, for which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals.

Broderick is a good guy and was a great back for us. It's a good thing that both of us will be able to play football in college.

The biggest adjustment is that guys up here have a plan. Guys in college just go up there and swing. Most guys in college just sit on the fastball. I threw some good pitches. I feel like I'm progressing right where I need to be.

It's nice to see that our recruiting efforts are being noticed and in company with a lot of very good tennis programs. We've made a commitment to competing with the top schools because we strongly feel that Santa Clara has so much to offer and is a great place for the college tennis experience. We have a solid nucleus of players that have the potential to accomplish many things and it depends on how we go about bringing it to reality.

He had the best 'J' in college, maybe in the pros. He had me doing all types of shooting and cutting drills. You work with a guy like that and you'll never miss your shot or forget your fundamentals.

There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the court like was the case last year. The impact they're going to have is now going to be in the college game.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Taxes. They don't hit us over the head with taxes yet. When you leave college, you get a family and you have other people to worry about. I'm not saying I'm not looking forward to that, but as long as I can, I'm going to stay in this comfort zone.

It will offer Australian trade qualifications and thereby enable people who pass through the college, not only to carry that qualification . . . into their own countries, but of course that would greatly help them if they wished to fill any of the skilled vacancies . . . in Australia,

Barry Alvarez is Wisconsin football. His coaching legacy is one of the greatest in college football history. Barry Alvarez is a once-in-a-lifetime guy.

That will be a first for me as well, first road trip as a college head coach. It will be a good test for us early on. I want to see how things play out.

Three points, five turnovers, I don't think you could beat any college football team - I don't care what level it is - with that kind of performance. It's uncharacteristic of us, and that's what hurts the most.

With a lot of college coaches, they just look at your size. They don't care how you play. It bothered me at first. I love pitching, but I also like playing, and I'll play anywhere.

I think the hardest part adjusting to the college game was being able to drive under more control so that I wouldn't turn the ball over as much and hurt the team. I feel like I've gotten to the point where he won't be pulling me after one mistake if I'm working hard.

It's not outrageous. In college I had a class at 7 at night. It's a fact of life.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

The luncheon gives kids a tremendous opportunity to see and experience what the Padres do for them. Talking with the youngsters, a lot of them know what they want to do when they grow up. And they all realize the value of a college education and what it can do for them.

He's a hidden gem. A game like this could bring his stock up. There should be some college coaches there who have not seen or heard of him.

By far it's the most important game I've ever played in college, high school, anything. I want to show them I can make a play and put a couple of touchdowns on the board.

He's going to be something very, very special. Right now, he is a terrific college basketball player, not the great, great dominating college basketball player that he would be if he stayed in college. I don't think the circumstances are going to allow it to come, unfortunately. I just think that's the way it is.

The administration recognizes that alcohol is readily available on college campuses. The Quad is a very convenient place for people to go indoors and party ... without people knowing about it.

We've been planning for this for a while. We're not panicking by any means. All the top-end players are out of college hockey this season. The cream of the crop is playing in the Olympics. It affects a lot of teams, and I believe it affects us the most. But I also believe we have more depth than people realize.

I think some students will be pleased with this because they're against all the paper we waste at college. The financial aspect is very attractive.

When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.

I haven't won on my birthday since college, so it's good to play hard and get a win by double figures.

I never really did like linebacker. In high school I played receiver. I was already undersized. I never got over 220, ... Back at safety, I'm starting to have a love for the game again. In college it was more like a job that I had to do to get an education and get a job and make money. But now I'm doing it for the love again.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Courses such as physics, which I hadn't taken before coming here, was of course challenging. Other students had taken it in high school, so I had to work harder to grasp the material which was all new to me. But, overall, I look at classes in terms of your learning ability. Your learning ability is your learning ability. Most of the material in college courses is new to everyone, so they are in the same situation as me.

We wanted to do this because we wanted parents to know that there is good living available for their kids, even if they don't make it through college.

I've spent half my life making money for other people to retire and send their kids to college, ... I'm looking forward to using my skill in making money for this new pursuit.

There was a Rhodes Scholar on my team, Tom McMillan. My mom had a chance to go to college, but she couldn't go, and my dad had a ninth-grade education. They wanted me to have a good education, and I took pride in being a good student.

New programs, like Texas Grant, which gives aid to students who are in need and have completed college preparatory work in high school, are being designed to help alleviate financial burdens of college students.

We have to really start putting a lot of time into our evaluation of college players. We've put a lot of time into the pro side because of free agency and how fast it works. Now we have to say, 'Is this player better than a young player we can get in a draft' A lot of those discussions will get started now.

If you're going to hang onto a college coach, you have to find one way to put more money in his pocket.

It's a little different because in junior college, we played in a wood-bat league. So playing with metal here, it's going to be a change. But I'll just have to adjust to how the hitters are. The metal-bat game is obviously a lot different in the way you approach hitters.

Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.

As she continues to play and work, she'll really be one of the elite players going into college. She will only get better as she plays club ball and school ball.

Our goal really is to put kids in college. We want them to graduate. We want to increase our graduation percentage. We want them to go on to four-year schools. We want to prepare them to do whatever they can do.

I'm an 18-year-old guy who has this opportunity. Millions and millions of high school players out there in the world don't get to practice every day with Allen Iverson. I think people get caught up with me not playing this year in college. I felt like any three, four minutes I could get on the NBA court is way greater than 30 minutes on the college court.

The most important aspect of college basketball has been being a student of the game more than anything. You no longer can go out there and just beat people on your talent. You have to know the game.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college,

Well, you know, even a freshman in college who is studying economics knows that if you cap the cost of being able to recoup your investment that people who want to invest aren't going to do it,

We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

It took awhile to bounce back but I felt better at the end of Arkansas. I'm coming back to where I was in college.

I've talked to (Ringo) a couple of times. He's concerned with undue influence by the timber industry on the work that the college does. He's concerned with my personal political involvement, in regard to helping develop forest legislation.

If you've got two beautiful girls, I don't think you have to pick. If there are two beautiful girls, I don't think I'm going to say, 'Her hair's a little shorter' or 'Her hair's a different color'. These are two great offenses. It's hard to score to 50 points. How many times in the history of college football have two teams averaging 50 points played against each other at the end of the year

The students are the ones in the higher education system. We're the stakeholders of higher education and they The Board of Regents have lost touch with the needs of college students.

It gives him a taste of the college level. I expect him to be a beast.

Belmont Technical College was a dream conceived by those with great vision as an answer to meeting many of the needs of the resident of the Ohio Valley, ... John Shannon was chosen to lead the way in this endeavor. As the college's first president, he represented the vision and perseverance that paved the way for the growth of the college.