Athletics Quote by Susan Orlean

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…

— Susan Orlean

If there's anything my kids have taught me, it's that my general belief in the good qualities of college athletics is alive and well.

— Oliver Luck

I think it's wonderful that students can get scholarships to play athletics at universities. But the fact that you can't do that in the…

— Dean Cain

Any time you factor in the enthusiasm that comes with college sports, it comes with a whole new level. It is less corporate, it's…

— Jim Nantz

Compared to our era, facilities in athletics have increased manifold. But contemporary athletes are not mentally tough. The new generation wants everything easily, but…

— P. T. Usha

I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back…

— Arne Duncan

The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of them don't…

— Dutee Chand

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

— Nipsey Russell

The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can…

— Aaron Rodgers

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

— Anonymous

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing…

— Charlie Pierce

They're coming out of high school exhausted. The pressure in high school is killing these kids. By the time they get to college, they…

— Debora Spar