Top 40 Oliver Luck Quotes

The student-athlete of today is different than I was, and certainly different than back in the 1940s and ’50s.

My wife and I didn’t raise our kids to be anything except what each one ultimately wants to do.

West Virginia is a relatively small state. There are only a handful of football players that come out of West Virginia.

A lot of people go to college games and enjoy it. There might be an NFL-caliber guy on the field or two or three, but you don’t need an Odell Beckham Jr. making a one-handed grab.

If you can’t envision where you’re going, you’ll have a hard time getting there.

Our players are our human capital and we want to make sure that, while football remains a pretty rough, tough game, that we’re doing all that we can to make sure that they’re as safe as possible in terms of equipment and penalties.

We have high expectations at West Virginia University for success on and off the field and as Coach Holgorsen has acknowledged to me, we are not meeting those expectations on the field.

How often do you get to build a pro football league from scratch?

There are a lot off very good college players after a year or two who may not want to play that third year of college football, may need to earn a little money, support the family.

It’s not like the NFL is going anywhere, it’s one of the best run leagues in the world.

I imagine my experience on the business side will help – I think that probably was attractive to the N.C.A.A.

I’m not a shill for the Big 12.

The wagering thing for a lawyer is very interesting. Will there be mobile sports wagering? Will there be mobile prop betting? Conceivably, someone sitting in basketball area placing prop bets on a mobile phone while the individual is 10 feet from the court? Some of the possibilities are angst-producing.

Even athletic directors can do the simple math. Five conferences, five power conferences, and only four slots.

Act like a duck. Be calm on the surface, but paddle like hell underneath.

Quarterback play is important for every level of football.

If bad quarterback play is damaging to the XFL, I think it’s damaging to any league at any level.

I look forward to partnering with campus executives, administrators, coaches and student-athletes to enhance the intercollegiate athletics experience.

I’m a football guy, but to me, nothing is sacred.

That’s what we do as a nation, we’re all Monday morning quarterbacks.

I don’t golf.

Given where medicine is today, there may not be any traditional injuries that aren’t repairable.

We always assume that what we do is the way it should be done – that’s not always the case.

There’s been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

Once you’re under contract with the XFL, you’re under contract, regardless of position. We’re not trying to be a development league for the NFL.

We don’t want to do gimmicks. Gimmicks in XFL 1 didn’t work very well.

I put my old player helmet on sometimes.

I’m a 1960 baby, and since I can recall, football has been like this. It’s been a more important, more substantial part of American life.

There will be relatively little in common with XFL 2001. I’ll be the first to admit that the quality of the play in 2001 was not where it needed to be.

I’m the athletic director around here. The AD. That really stands for ‘Andrew’s Dad.’ That’s how everybody knows me nowadays.

I tend to think that the rising tide lifts all boats, and the folks that are passionate football fans in the D.C. area, whether it’s pro or college, I think will have an interest in the XFL.

My wife, Kathy, and I will always cherish our time in Morgantown and we will forever be Mountaineers.

Football has always been a constant in my life and I’m excited about the unique opportunity to present America’s favorite sport to fans in a new way. The XFL will create first-class organizations that local cities across the country will be proud of.

Have you ever heard of the book ‘Freakonomics?’ So there’s these two economics professors, and they’re really interesting guys, and they wrote these books. And it’s really all about sort of false thinking. They try to go in and look at a number of different phenomenon.

What annoys me? People that aren’t willing to look at change or look at improvement.

I’d always been interested in politics.

Bust your butt, play hard, have a chance to get great game tape and you’ll get a shot in the NFL. We are a league of opportunity.

But for me it’s critical to have pro football in Europe on a weekly basis. One exhibition game a year over here isn’t going to do it.

There is nothing worse than sitting in a ballpark and somebody is vomiting behind you.

I think there’s a really fine line between innovating and being gimmicky, and we’re trying to stay on the proper side of that.