Rocky Graziano Quotes

I was a high school throw-out.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I was a kindergarten dropout.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

We didn't have money all the time to do laundry. A lot of the time, we didn't have soap or hot water. We were smart kids academically, but we'd go to school smelling.

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being ill contributed to my development as a writer. I learned early on to entertain myself by reading.

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

I never thrived in high school.

I've been on freshers' week twice, that's the only degree I have.

My wife has a public charter school for children with dyslexia. Almost every one of them has failed in a public school.

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

You know when I was a kid, I hated every day I was in school, from the kindergarten right through to my last day of high school.

I'm not ill, I'm just pale.

I was a bad kid. I was a really naughty kid. I couldn't read or write. And that was me punishment - going to acting school.

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'

I was, indeed, forced to take a break for two years. I was down with arthritis and hormonal imbalance. To add to my woes, I started putting on a lot of weight in no time.

Don't you love it when people in school are like, “I'm a bad test taker”? You mean, you're stupid. Oh, you struggle with that part where we find out what you know? Oh. No, no, I can totally relate. See, because I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

One of the things that even wealthy children need is an education, and I think the problems I saw really have nothing to do with economics. So I was unhappy with what my own children were getting even in the better schools, and then I was seeing so many children here recruited for failure.