Ajith Kumar Quotes

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

I was a disinterested student.

During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

I spent most of my time playing pool instead of studying.

School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

I have a lot of interests.

I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.

It is a lot of work when you have to go to school and then try to improve your game at the same time.

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.

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 had to keep up with my schoolwork so I could keep up my grades. That was tough to balance both being a superstar onstage but being a normal kid trying to get her math homework done.

I did hardly any academic work. I learnt a fair amount, though.

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

Mum tries to keep our mind on other things as well as football. But my dad's always football.

I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.

I was a bum at school. I never liked learning, and stupid ideas used to come to mind.