Quote

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

Will Rogers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Will Rogers
Age: 55 †
Born: 1879
Born: November 4
Died: 1935
Died: August 15
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Journalist
Politician
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Oologah
Oklahoma
William Penn Adair Rogers
William Rogers
Turn
Sports
Turns
Amateur
Earned
Athlete
College

More quotes by Will Rogers

Image
The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.
Will Rogers
Image
There ain't nothing that breaks up homes, country and nations like somebody publishing their memoirs
Will Rogers
Image
The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.
Will Rogers
Image
Many a politician wishes there was a law to burn old records.
Will Rogers
Image
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
Will Rogers
Image
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
Will Rogers
Image
I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.
Will Rogers
Image
If you want to be successful, love what you are doing.
Will Rogers
Image
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
Image
We have the best Congress that money can buy.
Will Rogers
Image
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers
Image
It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
Will Rogers
Image
Originality will be rewarded in any line.
Will Rogers
Image
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will Rogers
Image
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.
Will Rogers
Image
I am telling folks that the Country as a whole is Sound, and that all those who's heads are solid are bound to get back into the market again. I tell 'em that this Country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.
Will Rogers
Image
More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.
Will Rogers
Image
If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.
Will Rogers
Image
Technocracy wants to do everything by machinery. Machinery is doing just fine. If it can't kill you, it will put you out of work.
Will Rogers
Image
Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.
Will Rogers