“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.” SchoolNextSawsTeamFootballBasketballHigh SchoolCoachesNext DayFootball TeamBasketball Team Author:Charles Mingus
“I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by and to play basketball. But a funny thing happened to me when I got to college. I got challenged by the work and the professors.” PlaySchoolStudyHappenedCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolUniversityProfessorsAthleticSan FranciscoFunny ThingsScholarshipAthletic Scholarships Author:Michael Franti
“I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.” PlaySchoolUsedPlayerBasketballHigh SchoolSoccerBasketball PlayerMorocco Author:French Montana
“I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.” StatesSchoolProcessLevelsUnitedUnited StatesCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolSelectionParting Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'” IfsSchoolRememberBoysBasketballHigh SchoolHotCoachesTemperBasketball Coach Author:Tony Dorsett
“A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.” LongUseSchoolJobsUsedCuttingTeamBasketballHigh SchoolCreditListsCardsRejectionDistractionRejectedCredit CardBasketball TeamRoadblockGetting Fired Author:Mark Cuban
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Yeah, D-Wade called me up last night and said that he saw some film of me in high school and thinks that my form then was better and that I should shoot like that. I told him I'd think about it and then my pops called and said something like that so I decided to revert back and then.” ThinkingShouldSaidSchoolLastsFilmFormNightSawsBasketballHigh SchoolDecidedYeahPopsLast NightWadeFree ThrowD Wade Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.” KidsSchoolDadSceneBasketballMy DadGermanyThrownTemperJuniorsJunior HighLickingBad Temper Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.” SchoolGamesTeamInvolvedBasketballHigh SchoolShotsScandalBasketball Game Author:Darby Stanchfield
“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.” StatesPlaySchoolCitiesPlayerBasketballHigh SchoolLettersBaseballQuarterbackBaseball PlayerWashington State Author:Ryne Sandberg