A Quote by Joel Embiid

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

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Ball Enough Glad Good Good Enough Highly Junior Kind Never Never Good Enough Playing Started

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Joel Embiid
Cameroonian - Athlete
Born: March 16, 1994

If I hadn't become a chef I would have loved to be a top tennis player, although I was never good enough so it wasn't really an option. But that has never dimmed my love of the game, which started in childhood when I was lucky enough to be a ball boy at Wimbledon.

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In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real behavior that they started writing down models of highly rational behavior - and they kind of forgot about humans.

Richard Thaler

Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.

Jason Pierre-Paul

I've always enjoyed playing in Paris, ever since I was a junior and won the junior event there. Being Swiss, this is the Grand Slam that is closest to us - the one we watch first and visit first if we are lucky enough.

Stan Wawrinka

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

Jam Master Jay

I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

Jeffrey Wright

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

Tracy Austin

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

Kurt Russell

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

Kurt Russell

I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.

Jimmy Garoppolo

The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

John Abercrombie

I started playing golf because I wanted to be good. After a while, you have to come to a decision of, 'Am I good enough or not?' If you say 'yes,' then it's a simple step towards deciding to be as good as you can be.

Tom Lehman

I've never been the tallest or the strongest or the fastest. But I'd like to think that I can read the game well enough, that I can position myself well enough, that I can level the playing field when it comes to physical differences. When it comes to height, whoever wants the ball more is going to win it.

Becky Sauerbrunn

I played high school golf, I played amateur golf and I started getting officers. I was playing pretty good, won amateur tournaments as a junior, and the whole thing.

Arnold Palmer

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.