“It was a very smart thing not to give me a scholarship because I work my butt off for things, and I love to work my butt off for things. As I view it, I'm working right now to get a job. Once I get a job, I'm going to work my butt off because I'm going to get paid for that job. I'm not going to slack off. I wasn't brought up that way.”
Daniel Kelly
“The key to success is finding the balance between hard and smart working.”
Muhammed Haider
“No one has asked for his (scholarship) release. I'm not naive enough to think they'll all return, but we've got a better feel for what we're working with, and they got a better feel for me.”
Andy Kennedy
“Scholarship reductions in any sport are not easy to accept.”
Herman Frazier
“I'm pleased that we were able to extend a scholarship to Alex for this season. Nobody works any harder than Alex, and he is a great representative of a Cal basketball student-athlete.”
Ben Braun
“My brother worked here about 24 years ago. He was diagnosed with cancer after having a scholarship with Northern Illinois and the Spears' were nice enough to offer him a job down here.”
Dan Mclaughlin
“My thing is why go four years playing the game without it, you get a scholarship and you're not prepared for the college game. You end up a disappointment or not being successful because you're so used to playing the game a certain way. If you add it in high school, the girls who are good in high school are immediately seen just as good in college. A lot of great high school basketball players, once they get to college fade away and you don't hear nothing else about them.”
Will McKinney
