Underachiever Quotes

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

I was never in the top category of anything. I was never on people's lists. I was never the potential anything!

I wait till the last minute to do lyrics. I seem to work best that way - bummed out and under pressure. I often don't do my homework. But I'll always walk that extra mile.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

No one is an overachiever. How can you rise above your level of competency? Everyone is an underachiever to different degrees. The harder you work, the more luck you will have.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I never read in school. I got really bad grades-D's and F's and C's in some classes, and A's and B's in other classes. In the second week of the 11th grade, I just quit. When I was in school, it was really difficult. Almost everything I learned, I had to learn by listening. My report cards always said that I was not living up to my potential.

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy... without any of the tools!

A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

Mom is always saying I'm a smart kid, but that I just don't apply myself.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

In school, I was an underachiever.

I normally fly under the radar, and I'm normally not the best in my family, even though I'm sort of second or third best in the world.

I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.