Ball player Quote by John Calipari

Some college athletes don't want to turn pro, they don't want to take the cut in pay.

— Nipsey Russell

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

— Will Rogers

Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they're in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By…

— Richard Linklater

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even…

— Jemele Hill

Pro athletes don't even practice as much as college players.

— Cris Collinsworth

I see other athletes who reached a dead end in their careers for lack of good education.

— Hidilyn Diaz

“after all these programs and scholarships, after all the work done by organized athletics at all levels, the number of boys actually playing baseball…

— Anthony M. Esolen

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…

— Sonny Vaccaro

You got guys now declaring they're ready to play pro ball in their second or third year of high school. It's crazy! They're missing…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you go to college the first couple years, and you kind of get beat around, you kind of think about, 'Maybe if I…

— Aaron Judge

My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball.

— Nick Foles

When I went to high school, my most passionate desire was to be a professional baseball player. But something within me told me that…

— Tom Wolfe