Muhammad Ali Quotes

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class.

One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

I was never really good in school.

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

In school, I always had to work harder than others.

If it wasn't for her literally doing my homework for me, I would not have even graduated high school. Guaranteed . . . My mom always said, 'Luck is nothing but preparation and opportunity.' I think because I've had that history of not really being great in school, I probably try to overcompensate. That's why I try to read so many books. Just so I don't feel . . . uneducated.

I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

I was a dummy in school.

My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it.

To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.

I was put in remedial everything.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

I'm quite dyslexic in school.

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.

I didn't do well at school, and I don't have lots of academic reference points.

When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

In Libya, I did well at school because I was clever. In Egyptian public school, I got the highest marks for the basest of reasons. And in the American school, I struggled. Everything - mathematics, the sciences, pottery, swimming - had to be conducted in a language I hardly knew and that was neither spoken in the streets nor at home.