Rahul Dev Quotes

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I try to miss as little school as possible.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

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.

I never set out to be a role model, but I guess parents like it because I am dedicated to school.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

Whenever I wasn't working, I had my butt back in normal school.

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

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.

Please, children, do not leave school.

Education is not something where you just tip your head and they pour it in your ear. You’ve got to want it.

The students are kept so busy and are so fascinated by what they are doing that they have neither the time nor design for antics.

I have a good work ethic.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.

Stay in school and band, kids! It had its nerdy moments, and I always felt like I wanted to do something more with it.

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'

I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.

Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

I always strive to set an example for my kids to work hard and develop a strong sense of work ethic.

It's a life lesson that translates beyond football. You can share these things with your kids: Work hard, do things the right way and you have a chance.

I tell kids to be as passionate about your education as you are about anything else in life.