“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.” YearsPlayKidsGamesTeamStreetsCollegeSonPicksDecidedLet MeParksMy SonHockeyBackupLacrosseGoaliesHockey TeamRiverside Author:John Katzman
“I went to college to be a jock and to play on the baseball team. And then, I got cut and realized that that was it for that. I was really small. The other guys were really big, on that team. I was a bit of a theater nerd, and I was an art history major.” ArtPlayBigsGuyBitsCuttingTeamCollegeMajorsBaseballTheaterNerdOther GuysArt HistoryJocksBaseball Team Author:Charlie Day
“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants.” TeamFootballCollegeKingsBasketballMy FavoriteGiantsHockeyCollege FootballDodgersHockey TeamUsc Author:Alyssa Milano
“I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.” WantedSchoolGuyFiveTeamCollegeProveSixHigh SchoolComing OutLineman Author:Ndamukong Suh
“I mean I was very shy but I was also very extroverted because I was doing plays. I'd been doing plays since I was a little kid. But, I did feel like an outsider because I went to like a 'college-prep' kind of high school that had a really big football team and was known for its program so I was like this weird boy that did plays.” FeelsKindMeanLittlesPlayBigsKidsSchoolKnownBoysTeamFootballCollegeHigh SchoolProgramShyOutsidersLittle KidFootball TeamPreps Author:John C. Reilly
“I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.” AbleSchoolCareersFantasyTeamCollegeUnderstoodHigh SchoolTrainChanging My LifeRedos Author:Chael Sonnen
“If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.” IfsThinkingKnowsNextInterestingCompanyTeamCollegeBest Things Author:Sam Altman
“I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"” KnowsWantGivingKindFunnySawsComedyTeamAdviceCollegeSonStrategyCoachesI Want YouChampionshipTrust MePinsJust Do ItBowling Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Another big difference about not being in college: In college, you're on the team, you're competing for the NCAA - luckily I had a full scholarship and I was taken care of - then all of a sudden you're a pro and you've got to take care of yourself. I'm gonna keep doing the same thing, keep training, and hopefully everything works out.” BigsCareDifferencesTakenTeamCollegeTrainingWork OutTake CareHopefullyCompetingScholarshipTake Care Of YourselfThings Work OutNcaaEverything Works Out Author:Jonathan Horton
“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.” YearsTwoDoneSchoolLastsThreeActingStudyTeamFootballCollegeSpeechDegreesSummerHigh SchoolTheaterTrainWinterDeterminedClockThirtyThrownTwo YearsJailAfternoonFootball TeamWisconsin Author:Paul Newman
“The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.” PeopleTwoImportantPassionAbilityLevelsTeamDesignCollegeImportant ThingsEducationalRevolutionaryMeaninglessGraduatesEngineersMacintoshWork Experience Author:Guy Kawasaki
“The best part about being a Blazer is the fans. The fans here are so loyal it feels like a college team with how close the fans and players are. They have such a great passion for the team that it makes it fun to be a part of and makes you want to work harder to make the team successful.” WantFeelsPassionFunSuccessfulPlayerTeamFansCollegeHard WorkHarderLoyalWork HarderGreat PassionBlazers Author:LaMarcus Aldridge
“If every university president said, 'The revenue producing sports: basketball, football - potentially revenue producing at most universities - maybe in a few cases women's basketball, if every one of them had a monitor that reported directly to the university president and no 'student-athlete' ever gets into this college or university who could not plausibly be admitted if we did not have a football or basketball team, end of problem. It won't happen because it's like unilaterally disarming. You know your opponent won't do it and then you'll get crushed in every game, but it's a simple thing.” IfsKnowsSaidEndsProblemHappensGamesSportsPresidentSimpleCasesTeamStudentsFootballCollegeBasketballUniversityAthleteOpponentsRevenueCrushedSimple ThingsBasketball TeamDisarmingStudent Athlete Author:Bob Costas
“I was more into music, before I got into college. In high school, I used to play guitar and sing. I did a lot of that. But, when I graduated and went to college, I remember my freshman year and this girl from across the hall, who is one of my good friends to this day, had a brother who was in the school improv team. We went to go watch a show and it blew my face off.” YearsPlayShowsSchoolRememberFacesUsedGirlWatchesTeamCollegeBrotherMusic IsHigh SchoolGuitarHallsThis DayGood FriendThis GirlFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Steven Yeun
“I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting.” KnowsWritingMeanSchoolFunParentInterestInterestingDealsClassTeamCollegeHigh SchoolTennisDiscoveringHomework Author:David Foster Wallace
“One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.” LittlesReasonIndividualEnjoyTeamCollegeBasketballReason WhyOrientationCollege Basketball Author:Len Elmore
“For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.” FirstsFourPlayerTeamLandCollegeBasketballFinalsCoachesApprovalStampsBasketball PlayerCollege Basketball Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“No one else on the team in college was dressing up. They were wearing sweats.” TeamCollegeSweatDressingsDressing Up Author:Iman Shumpert
“I've just directed a film called The Great Debaters, which is inspired by a true story about a young college debating team in the thirties and two of those people are still alive and we put them on tape on the film and I'm sure that will be added to the DVD, and to get the opportunity to do that is very cool.” PeopleStillsTwoStoriesFilmYoungOpportunityAliveTeamCollegeInspiredTapeTrue StoryDvdsVery Cool Author:Denzel Washington
“Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.” PlayWantedSchoolOpportunitySportsTeamPositionYouthCollegeHigh SchoolDecidedCoaches Author:LaVell Edwards
“The Electoral College said that [Donald Trump] is the president, he's the president.But as a president, you also have to build. And if I'm sitting there and part of his team and I go look, we're probably not going to win the next election with 46 percent of the vote, so people like John Lewis and all these other groups, you have to start building bridges toward, this week was a disaster because he is burning bridges, not building them.” PeopleIfsLooksSaidNextWinningPresidentGroupsWeekTeamBuildingCollegeTrumpPercentSittingVoteElectionDisasterBurningBridgesElectoral CollegeBuilding BridgesBurning Bridges Author:Jason Chaffetz
“When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."” WayRunningSchoolTeamFeetFootballCollegeBallsPursuitBalletAngleTweetFootball TeamCarrierCollege Football Author:Gary Busey
“I hear that players tend to burn out of basketball, but I absolutely never had that experience myself. There were many times in my life where I got cut from a team I wanted to make, or didn't get playing time in high school, and even into college. But setbacks always inspired me to work harder, spend more time in the gym, play more, learn more, and watch more basketball.” PlayWantedSchoolWatchesCuttingPlayerTeamCollegeHard WorkBasketballHigh SchoolHarderInspiredMore TimeGymSetbackWork HarderBurn Out Author:Ashley Graham