Dick Strawbridge Quotes

I was in detention a lot.

When I was at school, I got into trouble quite often.

Smoking cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall, teacher sends you to the Principal's office down the hall.

We let off a Dungbomb in the corridor and it upset him for some reason—" "So he hauled us off to his office and started threatening us with the usual—" "—detention—" "—disembowelment—

I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

One time, my mom told us, 'No TV.' It was 3 P.M., and I was sneaking it in. She put her hand on the back of the TV to see if it was warm, and it was. So she pulled the cord out of the wall, opened the second-floor window, and just threw it out the window.

I was a class clown; the nuns didn't like that.

I used to get in trouble a lot in school because I would write very naughty stories and poems in class.

Never was I allowed to miss school.

I was always big on laughs, giving and receiving. It wasn't necessarily good for my teachers. Of course there's times where you go too far. My mom had to tell me, "Boy, if I have to come down to this school one more time, you're gonna get it."

I was detained a couple of times but that was for not handing in homework because I was playing golf or not present because I was playing golf. There was a theme evolving.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

Classes were incredibly boring. I took to dreaming. They took to punishing me. I was always working off punishments for not doing what I was supposed to do.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling 'Playboy.'

If I played today, I'd stay in trouble. I'd be in the commissioner's office all the time, I guess. I'd be everywhere - including where I wasn't supposed to be.

I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.

I got kicked out of school because I was wilding.

Taking the game away is probably the closest thing to jail that I'll get to.

I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.