"I am blessed to have gone to school here for four years. You all are blessed for the same reason. And you won't realize the depth of it until later on in life, and that's natural. All of us who have gone to school here, we know that there is something very special about this place -- the tradition, the campus, the social life, the academic life. That's why those kids eight miles down Highway 15-501 love to playa hate on us, don't they? Jealousy is an ugly emotion, isn't it?"

-- Stuart Scott, ESPN Anchor, at the May 2001 Commencement

 

Source: Commencement speech, May 20, 2001. Carolina News Services Press release May 22, 2001. North Carolina Collection.