Early Years
Thigpen was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina, and he attended Fairfield Central High School in Winnsboro. He became an All-South Carolina selection as a senior running back. Thigpen also played wide receiver and punter in high school while earning the nickname "Dirty Pigpen".
Read more about this topic: Tyler Thigpen
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
—Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)