It's probably indicative that I was destined for an academic career that I'm 6-5 and I lost the slam-dunk championship to somebody 5-8. I was a lot better at math.
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I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
In high school and college, I was an athlete.
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball.
By seventh grade, I was committed to mathematics.
I always wanted to be a Sixer... I always wanted to finish my career as a Sixer.
If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.
From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.
I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever, you know? Whatever your pool is.
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