James Coleman Quotations

I believe that there are a few people involved in making these decisions. We need to increase participation in order to have credibility.

We're all pretty good friends. We've all played other sports together and we've been together for two or three years now, so we're a pretty good chemistry team.

There has to be a mechanism so coaches are aware of the disciplinary problems their players are having. They should have dealt more severely with the problem.

Sometimes they're bad. Sometimes they good. It's what kids our age like, but sometimes they get carried away.

A truly great hug comes when you squeeze just hard enough to share a heartbeat.

That's the environment that they were living in that night. The question is, was there a pattern?

I hope the community will read the reports and make its own judgment about whether the record warrants the suspension or termination of the program. We didn't think so. We feel the decision ought to be made on the basis of the facts: We did not find racist behavior. We did not find sexual assault. We didn't find harassment.

The deplorable disciplinary record of the lacrosse team reflects the extent to which they let down those who trusted them, including their coach, their families and the university.