Mirai Nagasu Quotes

I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

I want to graduate high school, so it's very important to me, and I'll be focusing hard on that as well.

I loved being a student more than being in school. I was kind of the nerd type; I was more into my career and my studies than the dances and being popular.

My upbringing was definitely piano lessons and homework, just as much as the next Asian kid.

The only thing I know about being Asian is that my hair is black and my eyelashes are straight and I have strange eyebrows.

Students should feel excited and prepared for the new school year.

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.

I wouldn't have went to school if I wasn't playing football.

There's something about majors where I just focus a lot more. Obviously, I need to do that more often.

America used to say that hip-hop was a cancer. Then it embraced that cancer and realized, 'Hey, this isn't a bad thing. It is part of us, just more America.'

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.

You know, both my parents aren't really from this country, and the emphasis was really on education and studying, and TV seemed like it was not the best use of my time for my parents. So ironically, of course, I rebelled completely and now it's how I make a living.

My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

I got good grades. I played sports.

Well, when I was a teenager I was terribly bookish. I was very studious.

By the age of 14, I had stopped doing homework and stopped studying - as soon as I had any spare time, I was up to the local snooker club. I was fortunate my parents never forced me to stop playing snooker and told me to carry on at school. Nowadays, that probably isn't the best advice. I basically had nothing else to fall back on.

I don't want my kids to be on the streets period. I want my kids to be nerds. I want them to be book smart or playing sports - I don't want them to know nothing about the streets.

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

I was on the math team, and I was on the soccer team.

To graduate in four years as a student-athlete with no summer school is quite a feat.

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

At home, our focus has always been academics and playing.