“My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.” PlaySchoolSportsGonePlayerMajorsHigh SchoolCoachesLeagueContractsRaysMajor League Author:Robin Yount
“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.” TwoSometimesStatesSchoolJobsOpportunitySportsBlackTeacherFourYouthHigh SchoolBaseballBlockRestaurantsAspireJerseyNew JerseyElevatorsOperatorsAll StateJob OpportunitiesBlack Youth Author:Monte Irvin
“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.” FirstsSchoolSportsCareersCollegePaperPagesHigh SchoolNewspapersEditorsUnusualEditorials Author:Buzz Bissinger
“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
“I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.” WholeGovernmentSchoolSportsStudentsHigh SchoolWhole LifeNewspapersRanCaptains Author:Bing Gordon
“I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!” YearsFirstsSchoolSportsBoysHigh SchoolBusyJuniorsToo BusyPlaying SportsJunior YearFirst BoyfriendJunior Year Of High School Author:Jennie Finch
“[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
“I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.” YearsSchoolSportsYouthCollegeCoupleHigh SchoolRanCampsYouth SportsDaycare Author:Derek Theler
“Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.” TwoPlayWantedSchoolStarsSportsFootballHigh SchoolBaseballSports Stars Author:Russell Wilson
“I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.” ThinkingYearsPlayFactsSchoolSportsActingDramaHigh SchoolBunchDepartmentOne LoveMovie Love Author:Channing Tatum
“What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.” WantedSchoolGuyGirlSportsFriendshipFiguresHigh SchoolJuniorsSkatingFigure SkatingJunior HighSissyHigh School Junior Author:Scott Hamilton
“I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.” SchoolGamesSportsTeamFootballHigh SchoolAthleteBotherFootball Team Author:Katie Aselton