Don Rickles Quotes

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life.

There is a lot going on in high schools, and I think what we portray is fairly accurate.

I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my career and my studies than the dances and being popular.

In high school, I was not as much of a grade-follower. I kind of enjoyed more of the social aspect of high school.

I want to have a normal high-school experience.

I wasn't shuffling from one sport to the next that much. I had downtime to just be a high school student.

I was so driven in high school but did sometimes wish I could go out with friends, go to parties, and be a normal teenager. But having mum as my coach at home meant I couldn't sneak around.

I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.

I have normal friends. I sit at my house, and they practically live with me, and I watch them get ready to go to a high school party, hang out with their friends, go to concerts.

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

I don't go out that often. I'm not going to clubs or anything.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays.

As for my studies in school, I was a solid student. I was strong in English and Latin, but I got lost anytime the subject included math. I wish I had paid more attention to biology and science in general, subjects that came to interest me as an adult. I could have gotten better marks, but I never took a book home, never did homework.

When I was a kid, the idea of gettin' paid to paint your face... listen, I grew up in Ossining, New York, a nice little town by the Hudson, and nothin' ever interested me except being your usual high school big shot, which I was an' loved it, played all the sports and goofed around, always out on the street with the guys, everything was funny t'me.

Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who come to Harvard. When Harvard boasts to admitted students of its more than 40 religious groups, it does so in the same vein that it boasts of its nearly dozen a cappella groups.

Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.

From a young age, I was never into going out and partying.

I did fine in school. School was cool until I started personally rebelling.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

My interests were more extracurricular, more external, and more social than they were academic. My birthday is also in December, so I was one of the older kids. That meant I learned social leadership early on. I was always just much better in a team and work environment than I was in a classroom environment.

Starting out so young meant missing out on a lot of things that kids do, that your friends are doing, whether it was playing team sports or school dances with friends. I remember having fights with my mother when I was young about 'Why can't I just go have frozen yogurt with my friends after school and go hit on the girls at the library?'