Deshaun Watson Quotes

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

I'd like to get a degree. You ever see the movie 'Back to School?' I'll go back with my kids.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as 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.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

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

I was very proud to hear that my friend Andre Johnson was like, 'Man, I'm going back to school.' I was so excited because, yeah you have great talent. You do everything on Sundays, you do everything on the field, but you went to college, and I'm not saying that you forgot about it, but that was on your mind when you first went.

My family was very supportive, but also very insistent that I finish school, and to be honest, I wanted to finish school.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

Parents who press their children to succeed do so in hopes of preparing them for an adulthood of high achievement.

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.

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.

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.

Go to school and get your education and follow your dreams.