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A lot of these girls next fall will be competing in college. Saturday night is when we'll have a full house.

He's a great prospect and a great kid. When we signed him we thought it would be very doubtful he'd play in college. We thought he'd turn pro.

Three months ago, I was in college and now these are my colleagues,

He's got very good hands. He runs low to the ground. He's about 225 pounds or so and he has really quick feet. He was a quarterback in college. He seems like a pretty good addition.

I don't think we shot well (38.7 percent), but I think we played well and yet it took us 30 minutes to shake them, maybe 35 minutes to shake them. That's just by their tenacity and how hard they played. Providence has a young team. The three guys who I think played really well for us happened to be seniors and that makes a difference in college basketball.

We've got a lot of 20 to 25-year people, many of whom started part-time in high school and college. That's a tremendous thing to see.

We put a tie on Sam for the party. He took off that night. He came back three days later wearing a T-shirt. That's how we knew he was going somewhere else and hanging out. We found out he was staying with another group of college kids around the corner.

At that rate, it would take 30 years to get the college renovated. By that time, it would start all over again.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

During my 26 years of college coaching, I have had the opportunity to experience exciting games played in great arenas across the country. Capacity crowds cheering for their teams in 'fan-friendly' arenas are what made those atmospheres special. No doubt, The Colonial Center is among the best in all of college basketball ... the place to be for every Gamecock fan.

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He's a good kid that has a chance to be an outstanding player. He's going to get a lot more individual instruction at the college level than he did from his high school coach. He'll make an immediate impact down there.

Timmy has played a lot of point guard for us this year and he can play the two (guard). This was a great learning experience for him. He has made a lot of progress. There is just so much to learn coming from high school to college.

Then on Sunday, we were getting a little low on food and Rick Jones called and said 'We're gearing down at the college and we have food that's been donated. Can you use it'

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

Congratulations to Courtney - I think it's just terrific that she has a chance to get the record. I know it's a cliche, but I'm just really glad I got to play at Monmouth College, and I'm glad that women are still going after those records there.

It was a lot of constant eating in college, ... I'm growing into my body more, so it's not as bad. I eat what normal people eat - just more, and more often.

A family we're helping out has two girls in college, ... One's a pre-med student, and the other is enrolled in a nursing program. But their parents have no jobs, and they have no money in their pockets. We originally approached them about getting out of the shelter and into a hotel. But they said, What do we do then We have shelter here -- and free food. We don't have any money to buy food on our own.

One of the great things about the Southeastern Conference is our fans and our support -- the importance of college football. On occasion that exuberance goes over the top. What we'd ultimately like to do is channel it on the field.

There are lots of planning opportunities in the timing of withdrawals to pay for college. For high school juniors, we're rebalancing to prepare for payout. For seniors, we may not plan payouts until the family has gotten their financial-aid package.

Education doesn't end with graduation. The first position out of college should provide learning opportunities that will serve as building blocks for future career success.

Everyone wants to win their first game, and everyone wants it to be just like college, but it's not,

Cormier has looked good every time out. He's got control of four pitches, and he's got some experience -- he pitched in college and pitched in the Majors. He's a good pickup for us.

You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

At the college level, I don't think he's anywhere near his potential. He has the big frame and once he gets on a heavy weight program and can focus on throwing ... his feet are getting quicker and I look for him to take off. His big years are ahead of him.

And for this self-described Mr. Underdog, ... Never give up. Anything is possible with desire and ambition, and for God's sake, I even graduated college. Once you put your mind to something, just stick to it and surround yourself with some great people, and no matter what happens, you're always a winner.

I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. But I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, there was more of a chance that she'd say yes.

You have to look at where he came from, undrafted, unlooked at, nobody really knew who he was. That's a very humbling experience, but I think he appreciates the opportunities he has because he didn't have them in college.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

I never expected to go to college. Nobody in my high school went to college. We had half-pound rations of meat and of cooking oil. Matches were rationed. Toilet paper was rationed.

It was mandatory in college that we had to wear a suit. I think it's kind of funny now we get the opportunity to make millions and millions of dollars and we're required to wear suits. Well, we were required to wear them in college when we made nothing.

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College basketball is a business. You find that out very, very quickly when you get into it.

Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution.... I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

It always takes longer - there are more processes in a college than any business. Humility is pretty important. Because the (financial) gift won't come through, the class may be smaller than you thought ... trust me, over a decade there will be problems, and there won't be easy answers.

Wesleyan feels they are a major part of this community. We knew that we had the facilities to provide for the memorial, and that's what we wanted to do. It fits our mission being a church-related college, and it fits what Wesleyan is all about.

So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.

When you play those away matches, some of the crowds are pretty tough they can get brutal on you. College allows you to play a lot of matches with something on the line.

College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!

I learned 3 important things in college -- to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep any time given a horizontal surface and 15 minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

If this team were a college program, this would smack of ... lack of institutional control,

They embrace this challenge, ... It will be fun to be in that setting. It's one of the great places to play in college football, and it will be a great experience for our guys.

It's going to be very difficult for any political group or political special interest to stand between the working families in Ohio and the opportunity for their children and grandchildren to get a college education.

I've been there and I've done that, ... I've never liked looking back, whether it's looking back at college or at high school. I'm going forward. I could do the analyst thing, but I would have to be gone every weekend, and I don't want that. I missed seeing my daughters grow up because of this crazy game.

I've got a college education and I've seen some of this stuff and I don't get it. I can imagine an elderly woman trying to figure it out. Companies will cover some medicines and not others - what a zoo - they should all cover all the medicines.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

I had actually always wanted to be a film composer, but when I was at college there didn't seem to be any easy route into it-or any route into it at all. I found myself in this pop world and arranging things for people and dealing with orchestras and string sections, and I suppose I thought I ought to be doing this myself.

I'll take some great things from baseball, but the people I've met and the experiences I've had in college, I'm going to miss it quite a bit.

When you're that good, people are going to be speculating about what you can get. But speculation is just that - speculation. None of them, to my knowledge, have expressed strong enough interest where they would lay a big bundle of money on him right now. Xavier and Ken know he's a sophomore, and they know he's happy. And they know it's best for him to stay in college as long as he's happy and successful.

The freshmen come in during the fall and it's a blur to them, adjusting to college, away from home for the first time. As a staff we're trying to get everyone ready to play and operating in the system so they have to pick it up and don't exactly learn everything they need.