Athletic Scholarships Quotes

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

  Marvin Olasky

  Jobs, Feminist, Athletic

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

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Fall

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• 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

  Girl, Sports, Infancy Is

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

  Scott Brooks

  Kids, College, Athletic

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• 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

  Basketball, School, College

  "POP MUSIC : A 'News Junkie' and His Rap : 10 QUESTIONS : MICHAEL FRANTI : Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. August 23, 1992.

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• 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

  Art, School, Boston

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• 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

  Football, Kindness, Drama

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

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

  Jalen Rose

  Opportunity, Athletic, Quality

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• 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

  Party, White, Athletic

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• 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

  Sports, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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