Diego Simeone Quotes

I was a very good student. Procrastinating gives me anxiety, and getting a B really ticked me off. Sure, I didn't always want to do my homework, but I actually really liked school. As nerdy as it sounds, I love learning.

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I've always been an A or B student. When I get a B, I freak out a little bit!

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.

We should not have 8th grade graduations. Instead we should tell the students, “You have a long way to go. Get your butt down and study.”

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

I didn't pass the scholarship exam for Oxford because of poor mathematics.

I would like my kids to study well.

School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that I didn't care about.

If a teacher goes, 'Do you guys want an easy test?' You're going to say, 'Heck, yeah.' The less you've got to study, I'm going ace this test.

I was a student that responded well to knowing what to work on.

I think I can be pretty focused, but as I say, it was more wanting to be the good student, seeing myself as a good student, and also, my parents had expectations. They wouldn't have cared if I got a B or a C or even a D.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

I don't have to use anything to motivate me, a trade or anything like that, for me to say I want to win a championship.

Tests are special, the format closest to my heart.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

I kind of always did get good grades.