Quotes for All
I criticize the NFL in many ways, but I think it’s made great strides. I think college basketball, great strides. College football means so much to alumni, doesn’t it? It sort of represents the school. It’s when you go back; it’s at the beginning of the school year. Frank Deford
I don’t think you can explain why all these other sports and college basketball have a fair representation of African American coaches, but college football doesn’t. You can dig and scramble and scratch, but at the end of the day I think it’s just pure, old-fashioned racism. Frank Deford
When you’re 18, when you’re at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can’t do that anymore. Drew Magary
Recognize and reward players who put the team first, not just the gifted ones. Don Meyer
Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player. Dean Smith
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot. Dean Smith
What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. Dean Smith
My overall point is that ‘one and dones’ are not healthy for college basketball. I should not have made it personal to Kentucky and its players and I apologize. Bobby Knight
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. Bobby Knight
A flu shot is the worst thing you can do. Bill Maher