Thomas S. Monson
WHY SPORTS SCHOLARSHIP IS AN OXYMORON
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"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line
up in a circle"
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football
coach
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I
can still find my clothes."
-- Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing,
explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his
locker
"You guys line up alphabetically by height"
-- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football
coach
"I play football. I'm not trying to be a
professor. The tests
don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your
brain on stuff
I haven't been through in school."
-- Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was
ineligible as a freshman
because of academic requirements
"I know the Virginia players are smart because
you need a 1500 SAT
to get in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get
our players to and
from class"
-- George Raveling, Washington State basketball
coach
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison
for three years, not Princeton."
-- Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson
hooking up again with
promoter Don King
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs
that we went to."
-- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited
the Parthenon during
his visit to Greece
"The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's
why nobody goes to
see the game anymore."
-- Yogi Berra
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how
long it takes."
-- Senior basketball player at the University of
Pittsburgh
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A
genius is a guy
like Norman Einstein."
-- Football commentator and former player Joe
Theismann