Kelela Quotes

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

I certainly, to this day, believe I did everything I needed to do to get my degree.

I always say getting my bachelor's was the single hardest thing I've done in my life. Once I got to university, I was working harder than I ever had before and, for the first time in my life, I was getting bad grades. It was demoralising.

During college, I found academics repulsive and forced myself to study subjects I didn't want to pursue.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

I majored in business at LSU before I left.

I went to the University of Miami.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

I really wanted to go to college.

If you were to tell me that when I left, if I were to go to college in 2013 at U.C.L.A. and seven years from then I would be in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, I would probably laugh.

I went to NYU, and my parents had a rule that I needed to major in something other than acting if I wanted to pursue acting after college.

I'm a Jersey kid originally, and I went to Ramapo State College. That was back in '78.

When you're in college, everything seems much more important than it really is.

I didn't just work at a hardware store. I went to college for a second, and I worked there on breaks or during the summer.

College wasn't for us. We just didn't have the attention span.

Up until I was a junior at Georgia, I felt that when all was said and done, I'd at least have a college degree to fall back on when tennis was finished.

I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.