"When a person is being hazed and they’re submitting to it, they’re not thinking of their mother, they’re not thinking of their teachers, they’re not thinking of their minister or their rabbi. They’re thinking of a very restricted core of people and they’ve been told and structured to think in only that group’s evaluation of them."

"College football is doing its student-athletes and fans a disservice by leading them to believe that every mistake can be timely corrected and that fairness reigns. Well, it doesn’t.

"Sports used to teach this lesson and one had to learn how to deal with unfairness in the world — how to move on and succeed despite unfairness. Not anymore. Now, we wait for the instant replay to correct the wrong calls and make everything fair ... If instant replay can’t ‘get it right’ all the time, what’s the point? Moving human error from the field to the booth is an improvement by only a small degree."

"There’s going to plenty of times in your life when you’re not going to be a Cornell football player. But for these four years, that’s the only time in your life that you can call yourself a Cornell football player. So you’ve got to ask yourself before you get into a situation (with negative consequences), ‘is this really worth it?’ This is something that could take away from the one time in your life that you’re never going to get back again."