Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh, "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
"Shaquille O'Neal [basketball] on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece, "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach, "You guys line up alphabetically by height." And "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."
Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota, "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."
Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player, "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'
Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins, "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
Oiler coach, Bum Phillips, when asked by Bob Cost why he takes his wife on all road trips, Phillips responded, "Because she is too dang ugly to kiss good-bye!"