Quotes about Scholarship

Very likely the Legislature is going to allow us to implement the Hathaway Scholarship Program, which is just an amazing opportunity. It will allow us to improve test scores and graduation rates. It's going to be an economic development tool as well.

Jim Mcbride

These guys have earned this type of scholarship. It's not for just any soldier that comes back from Iraq, ... who just need a little help getting there.

Mike Conklin

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!

George Duke

I was going to go to an out-of-state university and needed funding for it. This sounded like a lot more fun than writing an essay for scholarship money.

Krystal Long

Each scholar has as much chance as any other for getting a scholarship, and that's kind of neat, I think. You go to lunch and possibly come home with a $500 scholarship. That shows support from this community for these students.

Lanita Richmond

All I want is to keep getting better. Maybe I'd want to play in Lebanon after college. But my goal right now is a Division I scholarship. I think I have a chance at that.

Tarek Ammoury

Having twenty-one cheerleaders on the squad is costly. We are not funded by the school. All of our money comes from the parents and fundraiser. Cutting the number would benefit us financially, especially of we offer a scholarship.

Christy Harrell

What is great about these scholarships is that the education assistance scholarship is open to graduates and undergraduates.

Alyssa Mcclure

With our innovative field goal net program, we wanted to include an element which we gave back to important causes. The donations to general scholarship funds and hurricane relief were money well-spent, benefiting two charities that we feel strongly about.

Joe Tripodi

We became the best of friends. John and Vera helped me obtain a scholarship at the Powerhouse Museum where I did a marketing course.

Allen Collins

Cal does want to play us. We will be in compliance with (NCAA Bylaw) 30.9 (which sets the scholarship rules), soon. But we aren't yet.

Greg Warzecka

He was going to play football, but thought he might have a better shot at a scholarship by trying cross-country. He's doing a very good job.

Rone Thomason

It was just as close to Castleberry as it was to W.S. Neal and Castleberry had a very good basketball coach, ... I was into sports and loved basketball. They didn't have a football team. I was an above average student in a class of 19. I was able to get an academic scholarship to Jefferson Davis Junior College when I graduated in 1970.

Jeff Wilson

I had heard from South Carolina, but they didn't offer me a scholarship until (Tuesday) night.

Marckus Boswell

He called us and said there was this gifted dancer he'd seen. We saw him and granted him a full scholarship to the festival and now he's on tour with us.

Kirsten Smith

We obviously wanted him pretty badly. We went after him hard and offered him a good scholarship. Anytime we're able to land a top kid, it's a great day. But that's just one step in the process. It's a long way from a national title.

Duane Goldman

Integrity in research and scholarship is a bedrock principle of MIT. Research misconduct violates this principle and MIT takes any allegations of research misconduct very seriously.

Alice Gast

All those Illinois fans probably think they wasted the scholarship on me.

Brian Carlwell

The subcommittee jettisoned the ethnicity complaint. They said it's irrelevant to his scholarship.

David Lane

We thought he could have been a pretty good Division I volleyball player. He could have been an All-American. But he decided to go to HPU and play basketball, and he was a good basketball player. It was economics. You can get a full ride at HPU and Hilo, but only a partial scholarship here.

Tino Reyes

The athletic department is launching a fundraiser on a scale that I don't believe has ever been attempted here before. We're serious about raising money that provides scholarships for student athletes, and we believe this campaign will set a foundation to where we can provide scholarship support on an annual basis.

Jack Bishop

It definitely gave me some more exposure. I doubt I would have been able to get a Division I scholarship without our late push in the playoffs.

Mark Payne

The potential of a 100-point swing in a student's SAT score, even at a place like F&M that has an SAT option, could be the difference between getting in and not getting in, or receiving a merit scholarship or not receiving a merit scholarship.

Dennis Trotter

He will be on scholarship somewhere in college. With his gifts and work ethic, I think he will do great things in college.

Adam Hittner

For three quarters we did a great job on him. But he stepped it up when he needed to. He's not a scholarship player for nothing.

Jake Palluzzi

He has been known to frequently donate them to fundraisers. In the last few years, this one-man cottage industry has raised and donated $65,000 to a scholarship fund to a Methodist seminary in Moscow that trains new ministers.

Steve James

They devote a year of their lives to the ministry. In addition to taking care of all their needs like housing and food and all that kind of stuff, at the end of each year, we offer them scholarship opportunities for each year they serve here.

Tom Massey

We have boys on the team who are borderline scholarship kids. If the right coach saw them, they might get an offer. For the other boys, it's an experience -- traveling, going to new places, meeting other people. When it comes to development in sports, you want to play against people who are better than you.

Deborah Ledford

We have a scholarship program that provides financial assistance to those who need it and never turn people away due to their inability to pay set fees. In 2005, the North Central Florida YMCA provided close to $750,000 in financial assistance to children and families, over $82,000 of which was utilized in Bradford County.

Tim Blenco

An important one that comes to mind is the California Scholarship Federation, which requires a lot of bookkeeping and also supervising, as the advisor calculates and administers academic honors and rewards for graduation. I know the work of this club was begun well before it was clear there would be no stipend.

Janet Hansen

We're real honest with parents. Sometimes we'll offer kids a partial scholarship and the parent will say, 'I've got to have a full.' That's fine, that's just being honest. But if we don't have a full we can't do it.

Joanne Graf

He clearly wants his daughter to come to the U.S. to college. ... I told him we had a scholarship for her at the University of Georgia.

Billy Payne

The last year or so, we knew she was going to get a big scholarship. Word got out to colleges that they needed to look at her. (Auburn) was there in 10 minutes and offered her everything.

Pam Wilkins

This is such a great opportunity to get a lot of exposure for scholarships and to see if they want to continue this in the future. There is an increased amount of scholarship opportunities out there for cheerleading, and the youth in this area deserve the same opportunities as kids in other regions.

Whitney Hommel

4-H is all about projects and recordkeeping, to teach kids to be responsible. There's a lot of scholarship money involved.

Julia Hinz

To do this we need to enhance scholarship, help address major policy issues and help students take advantage of living on the border in a way that will transform their lives.

Scott Whiteford

I really liked it because it has a very competitive volleyball program and it's not that big. At the end of my tour, they offered me a scholarship. I went home and decided the next day.

Katie Russell

They're ambassadors for this program. Every player that comes here wants to go to a four-year school on scholarship.

Bill Lewit

Coming out of high school you think you know so much when you get a scholarship, but when you actually get here, you really don't know anything. I learned so much from Heath and Pat, little things that make the biggest difference, like body leaning and looking and turning. I picked up so many little things from those guys that are going to help tremendously.

Jon Stupar

Salem was an area where there was a lot of Indian unrest. There was a lot of tension in the area. Most of the recent scholarship on Salem indicates that climate of fear had a lot to do with the outbreak there.

Rick Hendricks

The scholarship really helps. because if it wasn't there, I probably wouldn't be thinking about being a doctor now.

Keith Kitamura

Nothing informs us more of the extraordinary genius of this woman than these books. What they will bring to Wharton scholarship is beyond value.

Stephanie Copeland

One of the aspects that makes this event even more credible is the educational component. Each year, a scholarship is presented to the senior performer with the highest SAT score.

Vaughn Hudspath

It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senior year I would have a good year and have someone look at me. It happened before that, and I'm really excited about it.

Brittany Rayburn

The decision to delay approval (of the sabbatical decision) is based on the fact that research and scholarship are central to the purpose of sabbatical leaves.

Pauline Hale

With the rich cultural heritage and history of the state, coupled with its location, the University of Arizona is positioned to be a national leader on Latin American scholarship and international policy.

Scott Whiteford

She ended up with a full tuition scholarship. So, her mom and I will be paying for essentially room and board and that's it.

Jeff Shigeno

It's a neat thing just the way its evolved and the growth that the game has taken in trying to be a legitimate fundraiser. It's a very good effort to have a lasting memory of Connor, raise money for his scholarship funds, and it's a good thing for the soccer community.

John Bluem

Basically it is used to supply scholarships for kids from the Gresham area. From the first year (we've held this), we've been able to give a scholarship to every kid that applies. We don't set our qualifications too high.

Bob Klopke

We're also planning to establish a scholarship for next year. It will be some kind of endowment for high school or college students to study Irish culture and history.

Tom Taber

Max really liked Virginia because they were the first to recruit him, the first to offer him [a scholarship]. I believe one of the reasons he committed was that they wanted him as a running back.

Don Hansen

Eventually I want to raise scholarship money for good students who can't afford to come.

Joseph Olander

Having June Jones offer him a scholarship personally, that was something else. That's hearing it from the horse's mouth. That's an honor.

Laau Feagai

That was a real battle. Both guys played extremely well. Both teams left it all on the ice. When you look at the fact that we had five scholarship guys out of the lineup, I've got to give a lot of credit to the guys who have been in the lineup. They've been competitive in every single game. They've played their hearst out.

Dan Fridgen

We received a gift this past year of just over $300,000 from an alumna who wanted to create an endowed scholarship for math majors.

Robert Lyon

We need to upgrade Wyoming's academic standards and reputation. The Hathaway scholarship has put us on a road to be the best and the first in education.

Jim Mcbride

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Gordon Wood

The elegance, power and authority to make it a valuable contribution to the scholarship of this country.

Thomas Krens

Not many people in the arts get this scholarship so I feel extremely blessed to have been given this opportunity.

Jacquelyn Singer

At first, I didn't want to do it (run track), but then I thought I might be able to pull a scholarship out of this.

Jeren Debardelaben

I am so proud of her. It's an outstanding program. We have known Tim Connelly for over 20 years. To get a full scholarship is amazing. Throughout her career she has always given me her best.

Linda Kranick

It was always his dream to play golf for Auburn University. With the scholarship, we are helping someone live the dream of our son by going to college.

Brenda Jones

We didn't have a scholarship for Tamari. She's a good volleyball player. I don't know what our plans for her would have been. We would have evaluated her if she had been here.

Dave Shoji

Proceeds from the show go to a scholarship for performing arts students. It's the older people helping the younger.

Alison Mckay

We are especially pleased that we were able to offer a $5,000 college scholarship during the party.

Chris Wolf

There are two kinds. The ones that have no clue, and those that are willing to work harder than scholarship athletes, and those are the ones that become very important to the team.

Howard Schnellenberger

Teams draft mostly college players now, ... and a black kid from a poor family can't go to college unless he gets a scholarship. He can get one in basketball or football, but not in baseball.

Joe Morgan

Leon has been accepted to Stanford. They want him to walk on. They have a guy in the program, but they're not going to give him a scholarship right now.

Bob Wagner

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me.

Shannon Davis

If you average it out, an athletic scholarship is $2,500 less than the full cost of attendance. We want to know why, especially in cases where the student athletes help bring in most of the money.

Ryan Roques

Pro players are bigger, faster, more technical and more committed. The first thing you notice is that people try harder. You get paid if you win, and you don't get paid if you lose. That really gets guys going. ... You don't lose a scholarship if you lose [in college], so the mentality is very different.

Artie Bartholomew

The Clark Prize is a natural extension of the Clark's dual mission of advancing scholarship while building public appreciation of art. We are pleased to give the inaugural Clark Prize to these distinguished individuals and we celebrate the impact that their work has had on scholars, people interested in the arts, and the public in this country and around the world.

Michael Conforti

Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he said he was impressed with my play. I also found out there was a scholarship open.

Brittany Holestine

A verbal commit isn't set in stone, ... I thought about waiting it out, but a blown-out knee, there goes the scholarship.

Ben Chandler

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

They are very special. I don't know of any college program now with the numbers as they are that could do without them. Occasionally you have a youngster come up and earn a scholarship and really contribute to your football team. They are special.

Phil Fulmer

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offense from luther until that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

W. H. Auden

I think that anyone out there that puts the time and effort into it, you'll find some kind of scholarship.

Mary Davis

It's also exciting. This is an awesome experience, especially considering where I started from as a high school dropout. In my family, I'm the first to get an associate's degree, and the first to get a scholarship. Now my sisters are starting to go to college. I like that.

Mary Briseno

He loved the game and always did whatever he could do to get the edge. He worked with me a lot and was responsible for me becoming a scholarship player at the University of Nebraska.

Janice Kruger

My teammates told me I get a little bit anxious when I get passes caught on me because I have a high level of expectation for myself. Everyone told me that things like that are gonna happen, they have scholarship players too. So I just stood back, clapped my hands and told myself to let that go and I made them pay for it.

Roland Minor

Noah won't have any trouble getting a D-I full-ride scholarship.

Bob Vaughan

Many private schools are willing to be accountable for their performance in educating scholarship recipients. The challenge will be in moving the debate away from politics and back to education and the students, where it belongs.

Denise Lasher

That's the main thing. If you can get a full ride (college scholarship) because of your skills and academics, then go for it.

Derrick Estelle

I was a little down on myself. I felt I was a good high school player. I felt like I deserved a scholarship. But that's just how it was. I've had to work for everything. I just had to suck it up and keep working.

John Sharper

It's the effort you put forward and how creative you are. I've had several students with a 3.3 and a 21 ACT who didn't qualify for an academic scholarship but put forward the effort and got $5,000.

Jeff Buckman

There's a documented need for low-cost subsidized housing for families in Iowa City. The hardship is greater on those families than it would be on a single individual. A family headed by a minimum-wage earner will pay 40 to 50 percent of their income on housing — versus someone who has a full scholarship that pays for most of their needs.

Jim Cain

When they get here, we treat them all the same. It doesn't matter if you're on scholarship or if you're a walk-on. You get a fair chance. Walk-ons might not pick up their scholarship check on the first of each month, but not one of the coaches will treat them like a scrub. They can win the job as easily as the players we've invested time and money in.

Rich Miano

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Diane Ravitch

Because we were terminated, we weren't eligible for any of those things, so if my children wanted to go to college and apply for a Bureau of Indian Affairs scholarship -- we're not Indian.

Greg Sarris

We have a great program for young people that teaches them a lot about aviation and also provides scholarship opportunities, particularly for students who plan to enter the Air Force or attend the U.S. Air Force Academy after graduation.

Emilio Hernandez

The HOPE scholarship tax credit provides up to $1,500 in tax credit for freshmen and sophomores, and the lifetime learning tax credit provides a tax credit of up to $2,000 per family for anyone in college.

Erin Korsvall

I had a scholarship offer from them and I had a few other deals fall through and I didn't want to miss the opportunity to play D1.

Eric Bergstrom

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

Emeril Lagasse

I thought that he would have been a better boxer than a football player, because being a football player you have to have size, you have to have speed. It's a lot more difficult to get a scholarship for football than it is to go into the gym and go box.

Ed Zbikowski