Why 'Sports Scholarship' Is An Oxymoron
- "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle"
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
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"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
-- Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker
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"You guys line up alphabetically by height"
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
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"I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school."
-- Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements
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"I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT
to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and
from class"
-- George Raveling, Washington State basketball coach
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"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison
for three years, not Princeton."
-- Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with
promoter Don King
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"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
-- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during
his visit to Greece
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"The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to
see the game anymore."
-- Yogi Berra
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"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
-- Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh
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"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy
like Norman Einstein."
-- Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann
Submitted By: Kelli
Jan 3, 1998 10:21