quotes about Ncaa
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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.
-- Candace ParkerSource : "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.
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The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat.
-- Dan Gable -
It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.
-- Dick Vitale -
The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky theyre going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.
-- Jerry Tarkanian -
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The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created,
-- Jim Brown -
I know he's going to be fired up. He's going to try to get some revenge for the NCAA finals. He's probably been looking forward to this match since last March.
-- Joe Dubuque -
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
-- Joe Paterno -
After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it. . . . People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.
-- LaVell Edwards -
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Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.
-- Patrick Ewing -
It is a tremendous honor to be a No. 2 seed, and to get to play so close to home in Dayton. It is an incredible feeling, and it will be interesting to start preparing. But right now we need some rest and then we'll get our guys going for the NCAA Tournament.
-- Thad Matta -
If you asked everybody in a quiet room what they think, they'd say, 'What does the NCAA do really well? We run championships really well.' And yet we have this thing we don't get involved in.
-- Christopher R. Hill -
A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.
-- Nate Oats -
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The NCAA wants to control the images; they say they own your image forever. If you look through this façade, it's crazy.
-- Sonny Vaccaro -
What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.
-- Sonny Vaccaro