When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
The College Athlete Right to Organize Act is the first step in bringing college sports into the 21st century by ensuring college athletes have the right to collectively bargain across teams and conferences, and that they are able to advocate for rights, protections, and compensation commensurate with the value they undeniably provide.
There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
When you go to college, and you talk about your college experience, there's a lot of revisionist history that goes along with it. You tend to think of yourself as, 'Oh, I got all of the girls. I was the best athlete on the team. I was a straight-A student.' And that's probably not the case.
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.
I consider myself an athlete. I train like an athlete, I eat like an athlete, I recover and get sore just like any other athlete.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.
I was an athlete in college - a quarterback, a leader - so people telling me what to do doesn't work.
I haven't been an athlete in school or college, though I have played basketball and football.
Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.
To play the role of a sports champion, I first needed to break my body and become supremely fit to convincingly look like a college athlete. Along with acing sporting disciplines, I also had to balance the emotional graph and light heartedness of a college drama while competing in varying sport! Combining the two drained a lot out of me.
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.
If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.
I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.