Stephen A. Smith Quotes

I was class president, on the cheerleading squad, in a competitive show choir, and in, like, six different clubs.

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

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 was a biology major. But I also happened to be captain of the basketball team and first chair in band.

In a lot of ways I would love to be another student and love to be looked at as a Duke student and a senior and psych major and someone on the basketball team instead of Duke's polarizing, lightning rod, Grayson Allen villain, all those types of things.

Don't peak in high school.

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

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

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.

I love college life.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I went to high school in Minnesota.

I went to college when I was 27, and somehow, between high school and college, I became obsessed with getting A's. I can tell you exactly how many non-A's I had, and tell you honestly that I cried every time!

Why can't you be both? Why can't I be on the basketball team but also be the student president?

I was a bit of an all-rounder at school.

I went to Manhattan Center High School.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I went to high school in Orange County.

I'm trying to see, in high school or college, I've never been like, 'Rah! Rah!' kind of guy. It's always been just, 'All right.'