Bradley Walsh Quotes

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

In school I was pretty fast.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

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.

I was a dummy in school.

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or the school's curriculum. It should be to look at the idea that, maybe, the child didn't work hard enough.

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

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

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

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'

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

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

You can research until you're falling asleep, but that still doesn't mean you're really fluent in the material.

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

I always wanted to be a footballer; I always wanted to play. I was born to be a footballer.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

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

Young Petr Cech was sports mad, football mad.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

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.