Ben Carson Quotes

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

I was a terrible student.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I was a horrible student.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.

I went to a private school, and I struggled academically. It was really disheartening to always be considered bad at that.

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.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I never thrived in high school.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

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

I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.