High School Career
Tucker attended Robinson High School in Robinson, Texas where he excelled in football, and track and field, particularly long jumping where he was a state finalist his junior and senior years. He also competed in the 400m relay at the state finals his senior year.
Amusingly, he did not play football his first year of eligibility, instead acting as the equipment manager; his mother had forbidden him to play football, fearing he would be injured. By his second year (possibly due to an arm injury in a basketball game the previous year), she relented and he made an immediate impact. As a high school player, he was not considered a vocal leader, but he did not have to be: his on-field heroics more than once breathed life into his teammates (notably when he scored two touchdowns in the span of thirty seconds against the 1993 Troy Trojans). He played both ways his junior and senior years as a wide receiver and defensive back.
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“When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here’s a voice: “Come, follow me.” My idea of a calling now is not: “Come.” It’s like what I’m doing right now, not what I’m going to be. Life is a calling.”
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“I’ll walk, but not in old heroic traces,
And not in paths of high morality,
And not among the half-distinguished faces,
The clouded forms of long-past history.”
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