Quincy Carter
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493 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 28 Nov
Quincy Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And man, your spirit is special, man.
So you continue being great.
And yeah, I'm going to just be quiet now.
Yeah, that was a pretty cool experience. You know, first it all started with me at Gresham Park and playing, you know, alongside the likes of the Travis Strouds of the world and some other great players, you know, that I played along with. And so that's where my, you know, competitive baseball started at. In your mind, what was the first thing you were buying?
Well, the first thing I was buying was a Mercedes. But then Sharon Carter Embry was buying something else.
Yeah, well, it was probably my first morning at practice. And it's rookie ball.
Georgia was getting ready to be on probation or was already on probation. And I just didn't feel comfortable in possibly going to college and not being able to play in ballgames.
What's up, man? Good Lord, man. You talking about making somebody feel special, man. I appreciate that introduction, man.
Hey, man. I'm honored to be spending some time with you, too, man. Thanks for the introduction, though. Good Lord, man.
Yeah, you know, man, born in Chicago. For a lot of people that don't know, I was actually born in Bloomington and went to Chicago right out of the hospital. And then me and my mom moved down here to Atlanta, Decatur area, about, you know, when I was about three or four years old. But yeah, Mick, man, life was, to me, it was humbling, you know, coming down here from Chicago.
As a kid, I thought I had everything I wanted. You know what I mean? We didn't grow up in the nicest of neighborhoods. My mom don't like to tell me exactly exactly. My neighborhood, so honor mom on that. But it was humbling. Grew up at the Recreation Park. Nick, I was a kid that got dropped off at Gresham Park, did all my homework there. And that's where my competitive nature started, you know?
And that's where sports started for me. It was table tennis and bumper pool. That moved to basketball, baseball, and football. And I wanted to play all three. You know, also, you know, coming up, you know, closer to high school, I wanted to play at the best high school for football. And we, you know, actually had a good baseball and basketball team.
But that football team was Southwestern Cal High School. You know, Coach Buck Godfrey had established himself in the late 80s, mid to late 80s. In the 90s, we're starting. And I wanted to keep that tradition going. We had just went to a A state championship in 1990, I think I was in the seventh grade then.
And coming into the eighth grade, well, coming into high school, which was eighth grade for us, you know, because we didn't go to middle school, I wanted to be the QB that got us back there. We took a tough loss to Val Austin. in the championship game in 1990. And I wanted to be the QB besides Eric Johnson to lead us back to premises. So I started on that journey in eighth grade, man.
And we put our head down and went to work as a team.
Well, you know, it was a big accomplishment. And one, having pride in being, you know, the only Black school, all Black school to win at its highest classification. You know, the Clark Centrals of the world's ruled, the Valdostas, shoot, Camden Counties, you know, Parkview was coming up at that time. And so we're very proud of that.
You know, what you just mentioned wasn't happening for Black quarterbacks either, you know, as far as going to D1 schools. But having an idol like Charlie Ward right down the street in Thomasville and seeing him go on the Florida State to win a national championship and to win a Heisman was everything to me. You got to think that was my freshman, sophomore, junior season in high school.
And I was watching him. And then Damian Craig started to make some noise at Auburn. And ironically, those were the first two or three schools I started looking at. was Auburn, was Florida State. And then I, you know, ended up settling with Georgia Tech. Not settling, I'm sorry, no disrespect, because they had a really good program at the time. Which, you want to get into that anyway.
Yeah. But yeah, you know, those are the guys I looked up to. Those are the guys that were running, throwing the ball, being in multiple facet formations and really, you know, been able to show every aspect of their game.
Yeah, that was a pretty cool experience. You know, first, it all started with me at Gresham Park and playing, you know, alongside the likes of the Travis Strouds of the world and some other great players, you know, to play it along with. And so that's where my, you know, competitive baseball started at. You know, I ended up getting selected to play for the East Cobb Astros at the age of 13.
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