I went to private school in Manhattan, and at a young age, they made us do public speaking. For some reason, I was good at standing in front of the class and speaking.
It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
I went to private school and then chose to go to public school because I didn't like the private school experience; I didn't like that vibe.
The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as much as they could, so they put me in a private school when I was super young.
I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.
I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.
For me, at least with my parents, I feel that they wanted me to have all the opportunities that they did not have, and for them, that meant going to private school.
This kind of 'separate but equal,' I've seen what it's done in the history here in America, and it didn't work. And it still hasn't worked, I mean, even in continued segregation of our schools, which has increased with the privatization of our school system.
If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system.
I had to decide whether I should try to play pro football after high school or try to pursue my powerlifting career.
I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.
Life is a school of probability.
That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.
The goal is not to just do 'Video Game High School' every year. We want to grow into a real content production company. We want to be Pixar or HBO. We want to make five series a year or 10 series a year.
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.
Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.
I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.
I rarely had the opportunity to work as a full time model or to pursue a professional career in modelling, because school was always my priority.
When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.
