Quotes About College

When I left college, nobody expected much of me - and nor did I.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

Coach K, he's just the most legendary coach to coach college basketball. I felt like going to Duke University I can learn a lot from him in my time there.

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college, and the speech.

If we are in fact using name, image and likeness of student-athletes, they should be compensated.

If a player needs money, and that's a decision he's willing to make to go to college based on name, image and likeness, where he can make more money instead of where he wants to go to school, why don't we give him the choice to go to the NFL if he's ready to go and if the NFL wants him to go? Basketball has done it for years.

When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.

The thing about advertising is that you make more money. You can put kids through college so they don't come out with loans. My kids don't, and my grandkids don't, and advertising paid for that.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I don't know why I was lucky enough to have people in my community take me in. To be able to continue school. Or why I was lucky enough to find work or go to college. I do know that kind of luck is one in a million.

I was mainly a blocker in college. I mainly lined up in the backfield at fullback.

I was an English major in college!

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.

I majored in sports management, and then I went to law school for sports law.

When I was in high school watching college games, I was like 'I can't wait to get to March Madness.'

I left my mark in the college game, and I'm definitely happy about that.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

All through college, I did a lot of break-dancing and all kinds of different martial arts.

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name—he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included.

DEPARTMENT HEADS wear academic robes at the College-on-the-Hill. Not grand sweeping full-length affairs but sleeveless tunics puckered at the shoulders. I like the idea. I like clearing my arm from the folds of the garment to look at my watch. The simple act of checking the time is transformed by this flourish. Decorative gestures add romance to a life.