856 Quotes About Athletes

That's remarkable. He's just had a fantastic year. You don't see too many athletes of his caliber come around.

We want to take this and teach our athletes that there is a bigger picture. We are thankful we still have a gym and a football field. We are trying to get the kids to learn a life lesson.

I hope the message goes out loud and clear that more athletes should give back to the community and give back to the sport that made you what you are today.

We had some guys before who weren't team players. The 53 guys we kept may not have been the best 53 athletes but we're the best 53 team players.

Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well.

As a whole we have definitely improved since last season. And we have two or three other athletes who are really close to that mark and will do it.

They are seconds off school records and are buried in the pack. That shows how talented the athletes at this meet were.

Those two athletes can give us a lot of points.

It's difficult because Americans do things far differently. The athletes have rights. They qualify via criteria. It's not the way that some of these other nations do things, where they just take people and say, 'You're going to do this.' It's a challenge for us to keep up with that.