Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.

I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.

Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street... those were like real accomplishments to me.

My dad, in particular, was adamant that I should finish my education. He encouraged me to go to Oxford, for instance, and I rather doubt I'd have gone if he hadn't. I would have gone straight back to L.A. and tried to start my career.

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

Football is a game. It's something I love to do. But there are so many things in life that are more important.

It was always academic first, and I always put school work before football - although I did put a lot into football!

Education is more important than skating. I want to keep up with my schoolwork and my skating.

My parents raised me to put school first and modeling and extracurriculars second.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't go haywire... but at the same time, as a dominant male figure in their life, let them know they can topple the king.

I had the two best teachers in the world. That was my family.

The most important thing when I joined Ajax was to combine it with school.

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

As a little girl growing up in the Deep South, my mother told me that my future lay in my education. And she was right.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

My mum was always saying when we were kids: 'If you don't do you homework you're not going to the gym.' She was always a big believer in having something to fall back on.

My mum and dad were incredibly supportive - although I suspect my dad would have preferred me to go the university route. However, I know they were extremely proud when I won the 2011 BAFTA Best Actor for playing comedian Eric Morecambe in 'Eric and Ernie.'

My parents always told my sister and me that if we wanted to, we could be doctors and lawyers, like my father and his brothers, like some of their women friends. Denise and I had art in our sights, though.

My father taught me to study, study, study hard and he sent me to a very good Jewish school even though it was not near the house.

In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university. The performance arts aspect was never really an option because it was never in my family. Nobody was there to teach me anything about that. It wasn't until maybe my second year of university that I got inspired to dance.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

All my siblings went to college, and my parents stressed getting school work done first before we could play.