Early Years
Ellis was born in Wendell, North Carolina. He attended East Wake High School in Wendell. An all-state selection as a tight end and defensive end, he intercepted five passes and returned all of them for touchdowns. He also blocked four punts and returned two of them for scores. An outstanding basketball player, Ellis was selected to play in the North Carolina East/West Shrine Game. The Greensboro News and Observer voted him the Male High School Athlete of the Year in 1993.
Read more about this topic: Greg Ellis (American Football)
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years ... today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)