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I think me making the Select Team was huge. It was the chance for me to be around those guys and see their work…

— Paul George

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

— Julius Erving

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't…

— Neil Armstrong

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

— Luther Allison

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

— Bobby Wagner

I wasn't drafted high.

— Danny Green

In high school and college, I was an athlete.

— David Duchovny

But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot…

— Alan Shepard

I joined the Marines, passed Special Forces selection, and became a young leader in the military.

— Ant Middleton

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

— Michael K. Williams

I think early in my development as a quarterback, before I ever got a Division I college offer or anything, my brother was in…

— Jordan Rodgers

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

— Dave Pelzer