Student Athlete Quotes

• The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

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  Billy Kennedy

  Athlete   Play   Degrees  

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

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  Danny Ford

  Book   Athlete   Successful  

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• I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.

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  Pat Summitt

  Team   Athlete   Successful  

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Never underestimate your players; they can do it with enough game-like practice. Coaches must put more emphasis in practice and in life on making student-athletes aware of what they could or can do, rather than what they couldn't or presently can't do. The focus must be on solutions, not problems; what is wanted, not what is feared.

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  John Kessel

  Sports   Athlete   Player  

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• I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

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  Earl Campbell

  Athlete   Hands   Trying  

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• What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

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  Condoleezza Rice

  Athlete   College   Order  

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• The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

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  DeLoss Dodds

  Sports   Real   Spring  

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• I find it is a challenge being a student athlete, but I am the kind of individual that loves challenges. I see this as my job rather than a chore so it makes it easier to get through the day. Regular students don’t spend 4 hours at the track, 2 in the training room and they especially don't have to watch everything they eat. I enjoy what I do immensely and take the good with the bad.

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  Perdita Felicien

  Jobs   Athlete   Track  

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• I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

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  Susan Orlean

  Sports   Team   Believe  

  "Football U." by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.

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• By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

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  Billy Kennedy

  Athlete   Parent   Outcomes  

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.

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  Bob Costas

  Basketball   Sports   Football  

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• I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

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  Pat Summitt

  Teaching   Athlete   Love Is  

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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