College Quote by Kevin Martin

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey,…

— Jim Morris

When I started playing ball as a junior, I'm kind of glad that I was never good enough to be highly recruited.

— Joel Embiid

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

— David Cone

I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got…

— Mark Teixeira

I was a late bloomer when it came to basketball.

— A'ja Wilson

I came into this league when I was 20, and I didn't know if I was going to make it.

— Dirk Nowitzki

After my second year in the NBA, my prep years, my college, I hadn't really found myself.

— Enes Kanter

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

— John Matuszak

I grew up in a small town where you know everyone, .. I've been told all my life that I come from too small…

— Roy Oswalt

In high school, baseball was life. My senior year, I had the highest batting average on the team. I was one of the starting…

— Anthony Ramos

When I look back, my journey isn't about a small-town kid from Hazleton traveling around the country, but about the years I put in…

— Joe Maddon

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