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Sports Scholarship - An Oxymoron?


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This is why "Sports Scholarship" is an oxymoron . . .

"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle"

- Bill Peterson, a Florida State footballl coach

"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."

- Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wwing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

"You guys line up alphabetically by height"

- Bill Peterson, a Florida State footballl 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 iineligible 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 baskketball 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 visiited 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 Universsity 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

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