Jovan Adepo quote: "When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college."

I grew up in Europe, and soccer was the first organized game I played. When we moved back to the U.S...
ANDREW LUCK

From a small town like mine, high school football is a big thing, just growing up, I always just wan...
BILLY PITTMAN

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never...
ART DONOVAN

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 made up my mind a month ago to go with football. It is more than athletics. I want to coach footba...
BILL SHIRK

I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn...
BEN DAVIDSON

I was kind of torn between playing music or playing college football. I was going to college and rea...
BRANTLEY GILBERT

I always planned on being a head football coach. When I was in college I worked for Florida State's ...
ANDY SCHMITZ

When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER

People are surprised when I tell them that I didn't play football in high school with my size and st...
CLINT WALKER

I always, always hated it, ... but I was always the only kid on the team who could do it. So my coac...
ETHAN ALBRIGHT

If that was my last pass, it was a great way to end my career. It's been great for me to play footba...
VINNY TESTAVERDE

The first time I ever played 11-man football was when I came to college. It was the first I'd ever s...
CHAD GREENWAY

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a t...
RUSSELL WILSON

Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought about my first start in college football. I was a li...
BLAKE FIELD

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I ...
BRIAN J. WHITE

I played college football in an era when 220 pounds was still big enough to play in the line. As an ...
LARRY JACOBY

It's always been my dream to play on this level. Ever since I was a kid, playing football in the bac...
CARNELL WILLIAMS

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every sum...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in...
OLIVIA COOKE

Growing up I was a soccer player. I didn't even watch college football until my junior year when I s...
GARY CISMESIA

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my firs...
WOODY HARRELSON

I played basketball and softball in high school. I didn't know much about volleyball until my daught...
GINA TRINSEY

I played team sport as a kid and loved it. I played basketball and football throughout high school i...
TOM WATSON

When I was at school, I wanted to join the army. At college, I started acting in college plays, and ...
OM PURI

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my st...
GEORGE SMOOT

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
VERNE TROYER

When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even t...
INDRA NOOYI

This is the best I?ve ever felt in my whole life playing football -- in my whole life. Even college,...
DEION BRANCH

When I was coming up in high school, if you wanted to be in the musical it was during the winter, so...
BEN SCHWARTZ

Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ...
MICHAEL PHELPS

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death ...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
CALVIN JOHNSON

It is not hard for me to remember when I was in college. I loved many things about college life: I l...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.
RUBEN STUDDARD

When we walked ... into the stadium, I got a whiff of the smells and you could hear the buzz, it was...
TODD HOINESS

Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.
JAMES HARDEN

I had never played organized football before in my life. I was tossing a football at George Lane Par...
CHAD MOORE

My sisters have always been supportive of what I've done, except for playing football. Because I got...
BOB BRUNO

When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS

I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb...
CAMERON MACKINTOSH

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers...
JOSIE LOREN

My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo...
NANCY PELOSI

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was ...
SOPHIA BUSH

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN

When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep readi...
JOE KING

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school...
GABRIEL LUNA

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
BILL FAGERBAKKE

It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football...
CHAD KELLY

Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio...
BOB LIVINGSTON

I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP

I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one sc...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language...
CARRIE COON

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro co...
KURT BUSIEK

I've always wanted to be a coach; I never wanted to play basketball professionally. I happened to ge...
RICK BRUNSON

After graduating early from high school, I carefully listened to the quarterback during my first pla...
JAKE BYRNE

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I stil...
BO JACKSON

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR

I have always loved the game, ever since those days playing in my aunt's yard. I grew up idolizing M...
BRENDA JACKSON

I didn't realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn't realise how big f...
FERNANDO TORRES

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block...
DANICA MCKELLAR

Pro football wasn't as popular as it is now. When I came out of college, I had no idea of playing pr...
DICK HOAK

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college ...
ABBI JACOBSON

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Ba...
GIA COPPOLA

This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I ...
CHRIS ADAMS

When the company first got started, we were in my mom and dad's house, in 1973, and the office was i...
DAVID JAMES

When I graduated from high school, my mom and dad were saying I needed to go to college, but I said ...
ELIJAH KELLEY

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to...
BRIAN DENNEHY

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my who...
FRANK GRILLO

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was ...
TIM ROBBINS

My most anticipated moment was that first game because I knew that my girl and all my football peopl...
TRAVIS LEWIS

I love football and have a passion to help kids learn and see them grow and develop. I lost my dad w...
JEFF CALLAHAN

I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up ...
MARIO LEMIEUX

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after hig...
DAVID A. R. WHITE

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professio...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON

My favorite position is receiver. If I play football in college, that's where I want to be.
STAVONE MARTIN

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in col...
LILY RABE

I got my credential, my degree (and) my master's and I just ended up in the education system, moving...
CATALINA NOCON

Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on ...
RONALDO

They had stuff to say at the bottom of the pile. I don't think it was anything personal, it was just...
HUNTER CANTWELL

Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at scho...
ANITA DESAI

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in...
RACHEL PLATTEN

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High S...
FLEA

I played football the whole time I was growing up, and through two years of college. I think it'...
PETER LANDESMAN

My schooling was disrupted by the shortage of labor during World War I. It meant foregoing high scho...
THEODORE SCHULTZ

I was the first in my family to go to college, and so, growing up, I thought that dressing well open...
JOSEPH ABBOUD

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk....
GARETH BALE

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ...
SCOTT ADSIT

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all ...
MALLORY JANSEN

My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to figh...
ZACH MCGOWAN

It was difficult at times to balance my school life with my pageant life. At times all I wanted to d...
AUDRA PAQUETTE

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played...
CAM NEWTON

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla...
PARKER YOUNG

But he has nothing else to prove in college football. And I know he is going to do well up there.
DWAYNE JARRETT

I had to play a lot of point in junior college and high school, so it kind of brought me back to my ...
DURRALL PETERSON

There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA

I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in coll...
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