Ncaa Quotes

• I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.

  Bob Devaney

  Football, Winning, College

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• It's something you dream about as a kid. Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

  Johnny Manziel

  Football, Dream, Crazy

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• Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout American history, through a strong union.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Strong, Athlete, Common Decency

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• The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created.

  Jim Brown

  Organization

  "Jim Brown rips 'reprehensible' NCAA" by Pat McManamon, www.espn.com. May 4, 2014.

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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

  Education, Winning, Gold

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• 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

  Player, Nba, Coaching

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• These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports, Football, School

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• It's not uncommon in the entertainment world for agents to sign young talent. It's sinful that these players can't be represented by lawyers and agents when they're in school. If a player wants to hire someone to seek his value - in any other walk of life, except where this farcical entity that is the NCAA is involved - having a lawyer or agent isn't illegal. It's just the NCAA imposing its own set of rules. It's selfish on their part.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Selfish, School, Player

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone.

  Sally Jenkins

  Sports, Running, College

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• All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

  Meyer Lansky

  Sports, Honesty, Agency

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We have a great chance to be an NCAA basketball tournament team if we take care of business night in and night out in our league. Records are deceiving. You can schedule your way into a 10-1 or 11-0 record. I have learned that you're not going to trick the NCAA tournament selection committee.

  Mark Gottfried

  Basketball, Lying, Team

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• My wife thinks I'm very hot. She tells me that every couple weeks, especially when we go to the NCAA tournament and all the nice things come along with it.

  Gregg Marshall

  Couple, Nice, Thinking

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• 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

  Football, Thinking, Kind

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• Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.

  John Eliot

  Basketball, Athlete, Winning

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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

  Crazy, Forever, Looks

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Kids, College, Work Out

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Basketball, Heart, Darkness

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• Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  School, Kids, Nba

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Running, Thinking, Rooms

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• That's the difference between the NCAA and the NFL right now. They've got to step up and say, 'We're going to do the right thing. We're going to hire qualified people. We're going to hire the best man for the job regardless of what boosters or anyone else has to say.'

  Tony Dungy

  Jobs, Men, Nfl

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• The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus.

  Dean Smith

  School, Player, Two

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• The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

  Ralph Nader

  Presidential, Finals, Four

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Crush, Sports, Running

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Team, Boys

  Bill Walton (1995). “Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way”, Hyperion

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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

  Wrestling, Practice, Goal

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