Muhammad Ali Quotes

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

The fact is that most people who have no skill have no education for the same reason—low intelligence or ambition.

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

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.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

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.

No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.

My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

The business has been good to me.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed.

I honestly regret that I haven't done much work in Telugu, but work kept coming in from the other industries and I couldn't turn those offers down.

If it weren't for my education, I truly wouldn't be as successful at my job as a model.

I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn't clever enough at Maths O-level to get onto the cookery teaching course I really wanted to do, so I did a catering course instead.