The good thing is that I played a lot of high-school baseball against guys who are in college ball. Its still a big jump. I just come ready to play every day. I have to know two positions defensively. What helps is that I played third, a corner infield position.
Quotes about high-school (16 Quotes)
Education Many believe our entire public-education establishment is going in exactly the wrong direction. Rather, having a goal of real achievement, the trend seems to be toward reaching some kind of educational parity, to make sure no students feel badly about themselves. The liberal educational theoreticians tell you that bad grades only serve to discourage underachievers. The primary objective of Outcome-Based Education is to avoid humiliating a student. We should be educating the student first. Students are passing courses and graduating because of lower requirements, because of this new philosophical belief that no one should be held back. Colleges and universities are finding out that a high-school diploma is meaningless in terms of real achievement. The liberal school establishment lowers standards, ignores human nature, refuses to reward success and doesn't punish failure.
I was thinking about the fact that my high-school career is over. And the fact that it is the last time I will wear a Eustis basketball uniform. I love playing for Eustis.
I remember the day when you shot 100 free throws a day, 365 days a year. I don't think our guys are doing that and I don't think a lot of guys do that. A lot of people talk about how bad shooting has become in general. To be a good high-school basketball player, you should be able to hit a 15-foot shot.
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking 'What do you do for a living' 'I study astronomy,' he replied. 'Really said the teenager, wide-eyed. 'I finished astronomy last year.'
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.
How many 18-year-old guys can even have this opportunity ... There's millions and millions of high-school basketball players out there in the world, and I get to practice every day with Allen Iverson .
I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
In Kentucky, it's everything. Our homecoming is during basketball season. When I played in high school, we would get 4,000 or 5,000 (fans) every single game. We had to play in a downtown arena. We couldn't play in our own high-school gym.
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.
When you talk about basketball in northwest Ohio, in Putnam County . . . I imagine its a lot like Indiana high-school basketball. I dont know if you could find many counties in Ohio that have had six teams make it to the state finals in any sport.