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I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Ba... GIA COPPOLA I couldn't go without playing my senior year. It was supposed to be a big year so I could improve my...
JEFF INGRAM I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite...
PATRICK DUFFY It would be hard to get (drafted) high enough where it would be worth it. A lot of people who get dr...
JASON HOOPER
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I s... JOE NAMATH
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience... CHARLIE HUNNAM It's fun to get it. I didn't play for three years. Coming out in my senior year, it's a pretty fun g...
JOE ORTEGA I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few...
HOWARD HAWKS I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
ADEPERO ODUYE
When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER It's always been my dream to go to college for basketball on a scholarship. I always wished my senio...
BRITTANY RAYBURN I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked f...
CURT SCHILLING I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my seni...
COLIN ANGLE When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer...
CHANDRA WILSON You can't shut yourself off from hearing it, ... I've heard everything from late first round to fift...
BRUCE GRADKOWSKI We decided to take a chance, and it worked out pretty good for us.
KEVIN COLBERT I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to Cal...
DREW SEELEY I worked out my schedule over the past two years so all I had to complete was a thesis [at the end o...
NICK HARTIGAN I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called ...
FLORENCE WELCH I just lost a tough match to a good senior. I've still got one more year to come back and get anothe...
KYLE GRAPE I didn't expect to get all of these awards. I just go out and play hard. As long as I played hard, I...
DEDREA MAGEE I just wanted to focus on football my senior year and not worry about college as much.
BUCK BURNETTE I took the whole college prep trajectory, and then in my senior year of high school, I decided that ...
TAMARA TUNIE In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got dis...
GARRETT NEFF I just worked my heart out today because I'm a senior and this is my last chance to get to state. Th...
JARED VOSS My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas...
MIKE VOGEL
What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked.... JAMES LAFFERTY Personally it means a lot to me. I've worked hard my whole life playing. My senior year I wanted to ...
PATRICK THORNHILL Up through my freshman year, I just loved gymnastics. As a sophomore, then my junior and senior year...
EMILIE RYMER That's pretty huge. I went through a situation in college where I was looking over my shoulder prett...
JASON FIFE I thought their shot was pretty well defended. We had a hand in his face, and the kid made a tough s...
DAVE KRAUSS The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at...
ALEX TREBEK I started cooking in college to get girls, ... I was pathetic. Girls didn't want to go out with me. ...
ALTON BROWN It's my senior year. I'm just going to go out, have fun and play as hard as I can.
JEFF HORNER I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job,...
DYLAN PENN I was down and out. I just tried to get my leg in the air and get a piece of it. It wasn't pretty, b...
GLENN FISHER I wasn't sure what I was going to do. Then I got a call from Eastern Oklahoma State, a junior colleg...
LUIS AVILA A college teammate (Porter Troupe) called and said they had an opening on the Volcanoes, so I decide...
KYLE WHEELER Nothing has really changed. I'm going to play my best. This is a contract year so I'm going to give ...
AUBREY HUFF This is the first place I wanted to go. I was originally drafted by the Cardinals out of high school...
JUNIOR SPIVEY I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so muc...
GARRETT CLAYTON I would like to go back and get the four-year degree. As I move into management, I feel that not hav...
DAN THOMPSON [His future plans?] I would like to go back and get the four-year degree, ... As I move into managem...
DAN THOMPSON I did a little prayer while I was up there. I was just focused on the form and knew it was going to ...
JOEL QUICK It could be anybody's day. I'm going to keep an open mind. Hopefully, the 1,500 will go well. I thin...
CINDY KLASSEN I thought I had my first year of college paid for, so I was pretty excited.
ADAM FISHER
I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point w... YUNA
I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'... SAM KINISON I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost ...
AL ROKER Even if I get out there and get knocked on my [butt], it's going to be fun. This is what I have to d...
TYLER RICE And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
RUBE GOLDBERG I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out....
AL JOURGENSEN My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I ...
BRENDA JACKSON
It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I stil... BO JACKSON I was taking electives, and that branched into theater. Theater led to me taking a break during the ...
WES BROWN I think you've got to check the schedule. You don't want to be playing, in my opinion, Tennessee and...
FRANK BEAMER I got a best time in my freestyle for my relay. This is the first year I've actually done well in fr...
AUSTEN RANDOLPH I've been thinking about this for the last four years. After 34 years, it's just time to do somethin...
LARRY ANDERSON
In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say... BO BURNHAM I pretty much just got comfortable. Coming from junior college, I had to get used to players, and no...
AMANDA WARD I was always interested in art at school, and after year twelve, senior year, I spent three years st...
GRAEME BASE I want to get back here again real bad. I worked so hard this year to get here, but I will work even...
CALEB SIMONS It was hard sitting out last year, really hard. But I looked to the future. I don't dwell. I can't c...
STEVEN ANDERSON Pretty good for my first time. I wasn't really expecting anything, so to go out and get a pretty goo...
BROOKE PRZEKURAT A few games it was difficult because he expects a lot out of me, but it was really great that he got...
AMANDA WOLKE I look for him to be pretty special by the time he's a senior.
AVERY CUTSHAW I did have a contract for next year, but Bjarne has since decided to open up the contract and basica...
BOBBY JULICH I really wanted to sign out of high school, but my mom said Mike told her to push for college. It ma...
JACK TASCHNER I remember Eddie when we drafted him to the Giants out of Stanford, and he was another free-spirited...
CHARLIE WEIS I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school t...
DANE DEHAAN I think Cisco will be perfect for me to go and get my feet on the ground in college. I look at it as...
BRANDON JACOBS I honestly sent out letters to every possible college to get my name out. I thought maybe I would ma...
DANI LOUGHEED
I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college. CAL RIPKEN, JR.
When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend... JANE SMILEY Honestly, he hit me pretty good. I only played my senior year.
BRANDON CLAUSSEN She had followed me out to Hollywood from St. Paul. I was living in a boarding house, and she had a ...
PETER GRAVES As I started doing really well, some college coaches started to notice me. By the end of my junior y...
CASSANDRA PARTYKA I just hated for the seniors to go out like that. They had won the championship every year they were...
EDWARD TAYLOR I take it very seriously, ... I worked hard this offseason and I'm going to work hard this season to...
JARED JEFFRIES I was in a drum-off, and I could've won a Mazda 6 if I would've won, ... But coach decided he'd get ...
ANTHONY JACKSON It's pretty emotional. This is the group I had my first year, and I kind of feel like I'm a senior w...
KATHRYN GILREATH
I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as w... MATT BOMER I am no coward sir! I shall stand and fight!"
"Well, I am," said Sal. "So can we go... please?
ALEX SCARROW My game is predicated on being physical, so I think some teams will be looking for me in the box and...
JAHMILE ADDAE These girls have worked hard, so hopefully they'll have great senior years to carry out and be ready...
COURTNEY COOPER
When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my gu... JOHN OATES I was 30 years old and I had four kids and I had to decide what happens if there's no more baseball?...
DANNY ARDOIN I was pretty reckless. I went for the adventure instead of the comfort; that was always my policy. I...
HARRY MANX I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy ...
KIMIKO GLENN I haven't been offered a contract to manage anywhere next year, so any talk on where I might manage ...
BOBBY VALENTINE I met the team in Minnesota. I pinch-hit against Eddie Guardado and struck out. We came back home an...
MARK LORETTA Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula no...
CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG We get along well. They know what they have to do. I thought we got along pretty well last year, but...
RACHEL FOSTER Compared to last year, Joe has improved tremendously. He has worked hard over the summer, and it mea...
JOE SIECINSKI When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In t...
ESTELLA WARREN I decided I didn't want to go out like that. I'm fighting to get my career back on track.
AARON BRINK It's a contract year and there's no hiding that fact, ... I've got 10 games to show what I can do. I...
CHRIS SIMMS
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's un... EZRA KOENIG
I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several wor... NATALIE COUGHLIN
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it. 
A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of th... 
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm n... 
I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ... 
When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. 
Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ... 
Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand... 
You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou... 
Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it. 
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes... 
I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ... 
If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa... 
After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t... 
I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put... 
If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time. 
Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of... 
As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with ... 
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from... 
The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, mar... 
I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it. 
The first CD that I ever bought was 'Britney Spears.' It was at a 7-Eleven and I was like, &... 
Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If... 
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned ... 
I'd much rather hang out in a cafe. That's where things are really happening. 
I love that Cadillac ATS! 
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but do... 
Carbs - especially pasta - are the fuel my body needs to maintain an athletic lifestyle. 
Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money. 
The only place I considered home was the boarding school in Yorkshire my parents sent me to. It'... 
I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and sta... 
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. 
Of course you know, this means war. 
...Maude Harris told me that all was well with the world because medical science had profited by the... 
If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organ... 
One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great th... 
It takes time to save time. 
Thorough preparation makes its own luck. 
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. 
Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. 
Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to rea... 
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it... 
You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you c... 
There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust -- good Christians and good Communists. 
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. 
To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who d... 
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. 
I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do... 
Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. 
Our value is the sum of our values. 
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. 
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. 
Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn. I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competit... 
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime. 
A committee of one gets things done. 
I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it 
The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do. 
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. 
Dream the impossible dream. 
It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things. 
I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be. 