Alvin Leung Quotes

My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. They're both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

I want my son Yash to do better work than me.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

We grew up in a very demanding environment. Dad expects us to prove ourselves... so my siblings and I worked hard to reach what we have today, and I guess we have to continue working hard to maintain it.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.

My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' And I'd have to say 'Dr. Chen.'

What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me.

My father didn't push me.

My mom's a character. My dad was my coach, but my mom was the one who was hard on me. I would come home from a game in high school after throwing five touchdowns and she would say, 'Oh, you played all right. You can do a little better.'

It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.

I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.

When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

I think my parents - my mother in particular - always believed I should go as far as I could with my studies. There was no pressure, but at each step there were people who you admired, and you strived to those levels.

But I'm the child of a tiger mom.