Nonito Donaire Quotes

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.

I am not that smart.

When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!

In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

I don't know whether I much enjoyed education. I was not academically gifted.

It drove me as a kid. I couldn't bear the idea that I wasn't the smartest. Then I got put in a B stream for four years at my school. And that was the making of me in a weird way.

I have not met a man as tall as me who is as quick as me, ever.

Schools should be open all day, all year.

To be effective, we must also be fast, because everything is happening faster.

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

I was about 11 or 12 when I started, playing against bigger players. I would use my speed to get out of trouble.

Football is a reaction sport.

When I'm aggressive and things are moving quick and my feet are in place, I'm a better, more accurate thrower.

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

At school I was a disaster academically but being involved in drama helped me to find another pathway into things.