From ESPN.com: “Football came first for me. I remember going out to play when I was 5 or 6, and I started playing little league football a year later, when I was 7, in my hometown of Mobile, Ala. I was a quarterback then, and I loved it. It's football. In Alabama. Football is the No. 1 sport there. Everybody in Alabama grows up wanting to play football, and I was determined to get to the NFL. I still, to this day, love watching it.
I made the switch to basketball in eighth grade. I remember walking to football practice, and we had to change in a locker room at school in the basketball gym. I was walking over to the field, and one of the coaches came up to me because he thought I was a junior or senior already. Now, I was real tall at that point, like over six feet. Maybe 6-foot-3, 6-4, and he asked me if I played basketball. He said the team really needed me. And my mom was begging me to play basketball because she thought I was going to get hurt playing football. But I certainly didn't want to play basketball at first. I hated it.”
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter's Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.