Brooklyn Nets point guard Jeremy Lin:
“Going to Charlotte was a breath of fresh air. I learned so much from Cliff [Hornets coach Steve Clifford]. … We played the right way, we moved the ball, we played as a team. It was just beautiful. It just brought back everything I thought basketball to be, and I had so much fun with it.”
From Stanford football player Christian McCaffrey:
“I don’t play football for the personal accolades. I don’t play football for the fame. I play football for the love of the game.”
Brandon Wilson of the University of Houston football team (the guy who had the incredible run back off the missed FG vs Oklahoma)
“Culture wins games. We go hard all the time.”
Pitt head football coach Pat Narduzzi on the preparation before the Penn State game:
“We had the guys in here 3-4 hours on Labor Day watching tape. That’s how it’s supposed to be. I want our guys locked in.”
“Never lose your hustle.”
-Mike Sheppard
Charlie Strong on Texas QB Shane Buechele, a true freshman.
“You see him in the (football facility), he’s always around.”
Alabama head coach following their 52-6 win over USC:
“We need to improve as a team. We need to get more guys that can play winning football and create more depth on our team. More guys to contribute on special teams. We’ve got to build around the very good players that we have, but we’ve got to get more consistent execution I think from a lot of the players so we don’t have negative plays, we don’t have some of the things we had early on on offense.”
Torii Hunter Jr. from Notre Dame football on playing and doing the right thing off the field:
“You don’t want to let your parents down. You don’t want to let the university down or your teammates down.”
(Source: ESPN Sportscenter interview, 9/4/16)
Good story in the New York Post on a young man, Bashir Ahmed, who has it together.
“When you’re making the decision to come to a school, you want to go to the school that needs you the most. [Watching those losses] made me wants to come here even more.”
http://nypost.com/2016/09/04/st-johns-recruit-has-taken-the-long-road-to-reach-his-dream/
Outstanding article by Mitch Albom on Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh:
“What can I endure? You motivate yourself. How do you be enthusiastic? YOU ACT ENTHUSIASTIC!”
PLAY THE RIGHT WAY 