Quotes About Determination

In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.

I started to play in the fourth grade and didn't score for, like, a whole year.

Since I've been in fourth grade, all I've known was basketball.

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

I disagreed with my teachers on pretty much everything, including what grades I was going to get at A-level. I was sure I'd pass, they were convinced I'd fail.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

I had poor eyesight when I was young and despite that, I was making good grades.

It's O.K. to fail. Just keep putting yourself there. Once I started saying that and really believing that, over time, it just gradually gave me confidence.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.

It started with my mom; she always wanted me to get my degree and graduate.

Obviously, I'm going to graduate college. So if sports don't work out, I'll have something to fall back on.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

My mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in order to build the future. So my mom started going to college when I was in eighth grade, and she graduated when I was a freshman in college.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.