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I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody else's rules, and I stayed just good enough to get a scholarship to Columbia, which was looking for scholar-athletes.

My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.