Athletic Scholarships Quotes:

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

- Marvin Olasky

topic: Jobs, Feminist, Athletic, Athletic Scholarships

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

- Billie Jean King

topic: Girl, Sports, Fall, Athletic Scholarships

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

- Billie Jean King

topic: Girl, Sports, Athletic, Infancy Is, Athletic Scholarships

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

- Scott Brooks

topic: Kids, College, Athletic, Athletic Scholarships

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.

- Michael Franti

topic: Basketball, School, College, Athletic Scholarships

I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

- Uzo Aduba

topic: Art, School, Boston, Athletic Scholarships, Boston University

I lost my athletic scholarship by injuring my right knee. That right knee kept me out of Vietnam, and I went into Drama. I put them all together with a football foundation and the house was built on Drama - and love and kindness and understanding and grace.

- Gary Busey

source: "An Interview With Gary Busey". Interview with Meagan Evans, 11thhouronline.com. March 11, 2010.

topic: Football, Kindness, Drama, Athletic Scholarships

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

- Jalen Rose

topic: Opportunity, Athletic, Quality, Athletic Scholarships

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

- Scott MacDonald

topic: Party, White, Athletic, Cocktail Parties, Anglo Saxon

I wasn't the athletic kid in my family. Both of my brothers were on athletic scholarships and my dad played semi-pro hockey. My younger brother played pro hockey. I was the music kid. But I always loved sports. I grew up around it.

- Trevor McNevan

topic: Sports, Brother, Dad, Younger Brother, Athletic Scholarships