A biography for Gordon Geehasn’t been written yet.
“In a very complex world, you can no longer expect everyone to be great at everything.”
“I think we can be competitive on and off the field and create a model where our athletes are scholars and learners, too.”
“So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.”
“I think everyone needs to focus on the quality of the undergraduate experience.”
“Every time I get a lot of money, I cry, and I got a lot of tears left.”
“Jewish students, by culture and by ability and by the very nature of their liveliness, make a university a much more habitable place in terms of intellectual life.”
“The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.”
“I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.”
“College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.”
“I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.”
“You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.”
“My mouth is sore from continually extracting my foot from it.”
“I'm the seventh chancellor at Vanderbilt; Bobby Johnson is the 25th head football coach. That shows a lack of commitment to attract and retain.”
“What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth.”
“Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.”
“I'm probably one of most quotable guys in America.”