Al McGuire Quotes

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

For me, sports is a big part of my life. It helped me through high school. It helped me get better grades, because if you don't have good grades, you can't play sports.

I stood as well as any in my class, but the test of scholarship at that day was contemptible

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

I was a good student. I started college at 16 years old and did okay.

I was valedictorian of my class until I switched to a neighboring high school, but I maintained the grades and involvement. Switching schools was tough.

I always stayed on top of my schoolwork. I did it because I had to and because I had a strict father. He made sure I did my homework and told me not to mess around in class.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

You don't immediately adopt the values and the framework of this, the academically successful world, just because okay now you kids get to go to high school.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

When I was at Paisley Grammar we were equipped to compete with the private-school kids - and encouraged to do so. The sky was the limit, provided we had ability, ambition and a capacity for hard work.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.

I got good grades. I played sports.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the 'A' stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

I wanted to do my doctorate. I got honorary doctorates which made me feel very fulfilled.

I never did pageants as a kid, but when I got into high school, I did a couple that were tied to a sort of all-around academic student achievement program, something akin to Junior Miss, but not Junior Miss.