“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.” HappensSchoolGirlTeamHigh SchoolSoccerThings To DoCool ThingsSoccer Team Author:Kate Voegele
“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.” TryingLongPlayKidsAgeSchoolPastGirlWaterTeamHairBallsGuitarGlassesAthletePianoGradesHockeyThrowingBucketsJocksLong HairAcneHockey Team Author:Michael Weatherly
“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
“In high school, my sister went out with the captain of the chess team. My parents loved him... They figured that any guy that took hours to make a move was okay with them.” SchoolMovingGuyParentHoursTeamHigh SchoolOkayChessMy SisterCaptainsMake A Move Author:Brian Kiley
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“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
“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'” KnowsWantWellsEnoughPlayHappensCareKidsSchoolGuyIndividualGrowsStuffCareersWatchesGrowing UpTeamDon't CareHeyGood EnoughNhl Author:Mike Babcock
“We ask these players to do some very difficult things, for the team, the coaching staff, the school - at risk of injury. And when they do those things, I feel as if I'm in their debt. It's an honor to coach those guys. I want to be of service to them.” IfsWantFeelsSchoolGuyAsksDifficultPlayerRiskTeamHonorDebtCoachesCoachingInjuryStaffTigersDifficult ThingsLsuCoaching Staff Author:Les Miles
“I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.” WellsSchoolGuyTeamProjectsMajorsVery GoodPresentationBusiness SchoolGood School Author:Kevin Plank
“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
“In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.” SchoolWinningIndividualClassTeamHonorWeightScorePlusAwardsTournamentsOpposingWrestlerYou Re The Best Author:Bill Vaughan
“[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.” SchoolSportsTeamHigh SchoolGolfSizeChessTall Author:Carol Mann
“When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.” PeopleSaidShowsSchoolRememberClassTeamFansHugeResearchHigh SchoolCastsSnlTracyBiosShannon Author:Aubrey Plaza
“There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.” PeopleKnowsHardTodaySchoolRememberPoliticalCertainSportsTermDifferencesFireGroupsTeamMovedBusComplaintsTruckPolitical CorrectnessReferringSidewalkSquirrelsDifferentiateSports TeamKittiesProfessional SportsSchool Bus Author:Rosalie Maggio
“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
“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.” ThinkingKindSchoolArtistCultureTeamMiddleMissingYouthStrangeTypeNormalVicesTeenagerSensitiveCaptainsMixturesPublic SchoolRugbyYouth CultureMiddle Of Nowhere Author:Mark Haddon