Andy Roddick Quotes

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine.

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

I never went to university.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.