I was actually valedictorian of my class.
B students work for C students - A students teach.
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I realised after I came to Edinburgh that perhaps it was a mistake to have gone to a college which was bang in the centre of a vast city. It had a bad effect on the social life of the students because a lot of them were commuting from outer London.
My mom made sure all her kids went to college.
I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.
If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn't have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.
My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.
When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.
Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!
I did all right in school, especially in math.
Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
Education is the number one priority.
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school.
Both my children have degrees from UCLA.
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.
