Enough Quote by Joel Embiid

Coming out of high school, I wasn't really highly recruited because I was still learning the game.

— Bobby Wagner

First, I'm a basketball player and I try to have the most well-rounded game possible. But people forget when I was recruited out of…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

I was 5-6, a little chubby, spot-up 3-point shooter. So I couldn't blame the schools for not recruiting me. But then my junior year,…

— C. J. McCollum

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

— Paul D. Boyer

I knew that I was gonna play really well my senior year. And I was going into it thinking I was one of the…

— Joe Burrow

I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.

— Jose Altuve

It had been a long journey for me just to get drafted. I had to work very hard as a collegiate player just to…

— Scottie Pippen

From the time I started playing... When I tried out for a team in sixth grade and on - I was always starting through…

— Grayson Allen

I grew up with a lot of talented athletes through high school, through college.

— Justin Gatlin

I never came off the field in high school. You had to be in shape. You had to be able to play when you…

— Leighton Vander Esch

I didn't play on an organized team until I was 13 or 14 years old. Two years later, I was invited to the Junior…

— A'ja Wilson

I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

— Ryan Merriman