Kirby Smart Quotes

My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me.

Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

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

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.

Once you've raised a child to adulthood, you can only be as demanding as your offspring allow.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

With learning lines, before I had Alfie, I'd put it off and think, 'Oh, I'll just have a glass of wine and then do it later,' but when you've finally got a child to bed and you know you've only got an hour, then you achieve so much.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.