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Freshman Year Quotes

On first years, first friendships, first setbacks.

These freshman year quotes recall the messiness of a first year away from home, including one athlete sidelined by a chronic injury he couldn't figure out. See our College quotes for more.

I had been pulling my groins in college a lot and missed my whole freshman year of college because of groin pulls. It was chronic, and I couldn't figure it out. I went to the doctor, and he told me...

Quotes by Wyatt Russell

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Quotes by Topher Grace

I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and I were the only skaters in our high school. He runs my foundation now.

Quotes by Tony Hawk

My freshman year of college, 'The Hunger Games' movie adaptation came out, and I was really excited about it. This was maybe 2011. I loved it, but there was a lot of hateful backlash against the black characters in the...

Quotes by Tomi Adeyemi

College Quotes

Growing up, I was a little hippie kid. I went to some good concerts... Amnesty International with Bob Dylan and Tracy Chapman... The best concert I ever went to was this one at the Cow Palace my freshman year in...

Quotes by Summer Sanders

I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year was 'I Got 5 on It' by Luniz, and the 'I Got 5 on It' remix was the joint that...

Quotes by Sterling K. Brown

From my freshman year to my junior year, I've increased my receptions every year.

Quotes by Saquon Barkley

My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

Quotes by Molly Tarlov

My freshman year of high school, I started wrestling, and I ended up loving it more than anything I'd ever done.

Quotes by Miesha Tate

Day Quotes

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

Quotes by Mia Hamm

When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.

Quotes by Mary-Kate Olsen

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and biology, I really wasn't feeling challenged by it.

Quotes by Marissa Mayer

I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise....

Quotes by Madi Diaz

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Quotes by Macklemore

Doctor Quotes

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm...

Quotes by Lele Pons

I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and...

Quotes by Larry Kramer

You've got to be able to go out there and do the small things. I went to Villanova, and I didn't start my freshman year until the last two games of the season. And I think that continuously not being...

Quotes by Kyle Lowry

By the time I arrived for my freshman year at Swarthmore College in 1979, I had already had many seizures, although my family, friends and I did not know it.

Quotes by Kurt Eichenwald

When I went to the University of Texas, my first day of freshman year in 1994, I took a student tour, and I asked about the tower shooting. I was told, 'We're really not supposed to talk about that.' That...

Quotes by Keith Maitland

End Quotes

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC....

Quotes by John Battelle

Frequently Asked Questions

What experiences do these freshman year quotes describe?
They cover a mix of struggles and milestones — a nagging sports injury, a stretch of partying without direction, and a lasting friendship formed early on.
Is there a quote about an injury affecting someone's first year?
Yes, one describes a chronic groin injury that derailed an entire freshman season and took time to properly diagnose.
Do any quotes mention starting college without a clear plan?
One does, describing a freshman year mostly spent partying with no real sense of direction at the time.
Is a historical event referenced in this topic?
One quote briefly recalls being told not to discuss a past campus shooting during a first-day tour, treated as a passing, sobering memory rather than the main focus.
What's a good related topic to explore next?
Our College quotes widen the lens beyond just the first year to the full college experience.

A lasting friendship formed in that first year comes up too, a reminder of how early some defining relationships begin. Pair it with our Day and Doctor quotes.