As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
And sex is definitely part of college life.
At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
Football players are misunderstood. They aren't the dumb jocks people think they are.
You would not want me on your football team.
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.
I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.
A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
I loved the college experience of studying.
I got quite the college experience.
Access to a college degree is critical.
People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.
We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.
I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'
For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that's the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college.
