Sophomore Quotes

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The fact that I was 5ft 2 as a sophomore didn`t help. I`m 6ft 1 now but still relate to those feelings. I didn`t date in high school and didn`t get my growth until college. I never got over being short.

- Kevin Costner

When my dad died at the end of my sophomore year (at university), I stopped and took stock of my life. There was this real sense that my childhood was officially over. I decided I wanted to be an actor. I knew I was loved as a kid. The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family`s attention and love. When my mother got sick, and I`d see her fight to survive, it gave me an early view of bravery and what life was about. I was able to prepare for it. Your mother dies, and you`re eighteen, and you face a choice. Are you going to take drugs? Become a drunk? Or are you going to try to become more spiritual? Why not go with the thing that seems more positive? (pause) Why do I tend to be optimistic? Because the alternative is just crushing to my soul.

- Martin Short

In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.

- Beverley Mitchell

I`m going in the studio at the end of March and working on my next album which is my Sophomore album here and it`ll be my Junior album overseas.

- Christina Milian

There`s always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If Pi (1998) didn`t work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don`t think I would have gotten another shot at it. If Requiem for a Dream (2000) didn`t work out, they would have called me a "one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump".

- Darren Aronofsky

It`s called `The Dr.`s Advocate`. It means Dr. Dre`s the man; what he says goes. He`s got the formula, we gonna make it happen. - On the title of his sophomore album

- The Game

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I`d quit school he`d pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

- Sarah Silverman

I`m just happy to be part of a `sophomore effort,`

- John Doe

He`s really good, definitely opens your eyes, ... When we see him run we`re like, wow, he`s only a sophomore. So he`s definitely going to be involved.

- Chris Walton

(Of Yugoslavian-German-Irish-Native American heritage, she was raised in Kinnelon, NJ, the daughter of Dr. Salvatore Benanti, a psychotherapist, and the former Linda Wonneberger, who`s Laura`s vocal coach. Younger sister Mariel is a sophomore (and psych major) at Philadelphia`s St. Joseph`s University.) I love her! ... She`s wonderful, so bright, and so athletic the most generous person. I constantly try to be more like her.

- Laura Benanti

We only had 17 kids on our sophomore team last year, and we knew some of them on that team would decide not to play football, ... For a lot of kids, football just isn`t for them. It is frustrating in a lot of regards. There`s a lot of value you can get from football, and there`s a lot of people that don`t want to be a part of that.

- Sam Anderson

We will pretty much count on our defense to get it done, ... We would like to win the division and continue to compete with the teams in our league. This is the toughest league in the state, so it makes it a little more difficult for us, but we want to set our goals high and work to achieve them. We do have a lot of good athletes, especially in the freshmen and sophomore classes, so the sooner they get some experience the better we will be in the long run.

- Angela Taylor

That is going to be the big one. Jones is good, but he`s a sophomore. That`s a spot where things can go really well or really bad.

- Kevin Young

My sister (Kendra, a sophomore point guard) is the fastest girl on the team. Every time she gets the ball I tell her, `Run.` But it doesn`t matter because the post is already going.

- Courtney Brown

Coach Goebbel expects me to be a leader of this group even though I`m just a sophomore. At 20 years old I`ve got a lot of playing experience from last year. I know the offense like the back of my hand so he expects me to help out these younger guys.

- Larry Fitzgerald

It`s a big possibility. My freshman and sophomore years of high school, I felt that (Connecticut) was the school I was going to.

- Luol Deng

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they`re all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

- Ann Wilson

Even as a sophomore you could tell he would be a real good football player because he blocked extremely well,

- Bob Sapp

(Of course the Hogs will miss Jones, the all-time rushing SEC quarterback, but Baker likes what he sees from Johnson, the sophomore No. 1 as preseason opened, and contending freshmen Alex Mortensen and Cole Barthel.) Robert, Cole and Alex, ... they can deliver the ball so it's not a big difference. Matt's ball would get there, but now we've got a quarterback who can really put it on the money. Robert has got a stronger arm.

- Chris Baker

The biggest thing in my head was losing to a sophomore. I was like, `I`m not going to lose to a sophomore, I`m a senior, it`s my last chance, I`m going to stick it to him` and I did.

- James Nicholson

That`s what I just talked to them about the other day, ... The section championship is still within our grasp if we play well. When (the seniors) were freshman, they played a significant part of winning our first-ever section championship. Unfortunately, we came in second place in their sophomore year. Then last year we did not make the playoffs. So they have gotten a taste of everything. They want to go out as champions.

- Ashley Brown

There?s a high dropout rate between freshman and sophomore year, because it?s such as difficult major.

- Peggy Church

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

- Thomas Friedman

I`ve known Kane since he was a sophomore. So in the three years that I have known him, I have come to realize that there is something different about him. I don`t know if it`s his huge smile, his disarming smile, or his affinity for wearing pastel-colored shirts, but after a few minutes with Kane you can`t help but feel good.

- David Grant

Jerry was the best athlete I ever played with. Jerry was a senior at SMU when I was a sophomore, but we also played together with the Cardinals and Packers. He started in the NFL as a halfback, but moved to defense. He was a great runner.

- John Roach

This is a disease no one talks about, ... But it changes your life. I never got to play football; I had to quit baseball because I was too sick; and when I got to college, I missed a quarter of my sophomore year and had to live with a feeding tube for a while.

- Chris Adams

I cheered competitively all through high school and then did two dance teams. I was on a team equivalent to a JV squad where we did like women`s basketball, I did that my Freshman year. I took my Sophomore year off. Then when I transferred to UNCW, I joined the dance team again and got back into it. I never thought it would be this beneficial to me spending so much time cheerleading. I definitely thought it was going to be pointless and then I find myself at 23 going to cheerleading practice. Blows my mind!

- Bevin Prince

We have a great team. You`re not going to be able to stop me because if you do that, go ahead. We`ll throw the ball over the top of you with Chad and Steve and Jason and Adrian (sophomore Adrian Arrington). We have a great team of receivers, great tight ends. We`re just a great offense this year. We`re not just two people who are going to beat you. Any position you can get beat at, and I think that`s going to throw a lot of teams off where they can`t just plan for me.

- Michael Hart

He`s pretty poised for a sophomore. He has a good arm and he has some experience under his belt. He throws the ball pretty well.

- Anne Raver

I am extremely proud of this sophomore. He is working hard on his serve and volley approach to the net.

- Annie Dillard

Our sophomores who are going to play are going to develop. I don`t feel good about starting a sophomore unless he has already shown he can do the job for us. All they lack is that Friday night experience.

- Anwar Sadiqi

That was vital to the game because until then we`d just been trading baskets. I wasn`t nervous because coach told me I`m not a freshman anymore. I`m a sophomore.

- Arjun Singh

(She dropped out of CU after her sophomore year. She says she was depressed for two years, suffered from insomnia and gave up kicking. Her dad ached for her.) Barnett went on TV and said how these (recent recruiting party) accusations have hurt his family, ... I`ll show you a hurt family.

- Arthur Travers

She had another double-double tonight. She has been playing very well for a sophomore. She`s stepping her game up. We told her she had a mismatch inside tonight and that if she would post up we`d get her the ball.

- Arvind Mediratta

She`s just going to get better and better, and that`s what`s really exciting. This was just her sophomore year. I believe she has a great opportunity to break several major records at North, including points in a season and career points.

- Arvind Mediratta

He was the type of player that loved to take on a defense by himself. He had that next-level ability to always break down the first defender and that creates a lot of problems for a defense. And he could do that from his sophomore year in high school.

- Barbara Zimmerman

It hurt us, because he`s the guy that gets the majority of the reps. But that`s part of football. Your backups have to be able to step in and do the job. (Sophomore backup) Kenduall (Thorbs) did a good job. But that wasn`t the deciding factor tonight.

- Barry Asmus