Mike Trout Quotes

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

My grandfather was a history teacher, one reason the subject has been an integral part of my life.

I wanted to be a teacher. My dad was a teacher.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.

Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played football, and when your father is telling stories about the game he played... Everybody wants to be like their father.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Shout-out to my dad - he influenced my style when I was 17.

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who helped me through high school and really instilled a confidence in me by just holding me up to a standard I wasn't holding myself up to.

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

My dad is my biggest influence on me as a musician, even though he's not a musician.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.