Early Years
McKinney attended Clear Lake High School in Houston, Texas. He lettered in basketball and saw action as defensive end and tight end in football. He earned Associated Press all-state honors as a senior.
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Famous quotes containing the words early and/or years:
“I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given. For what person, except one’s own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
“What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.”
—Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)