Tyler Labine Quotes

My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.

I majored in business/marketing because I was going to be a teacher and a high school basketball coach.

I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

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.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

I wanted to be a teacher.

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

I was going to become a teacher.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be a head coach at some point.

I spent a few years after college as a Boston public school teacher and I loved it. But I was never committed to it, committed to it as a career.

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you have to answer. That's exactly what directing is. And the vast majority of those questions are not very interesting really, but they need somebody to make a decision - a good one or a bad one - and they follow it.

I mean, I knew I wanted to do this kind of thing in school, but to actually have somebody that would bring you into that world, that was really exciting, you know?

I do want to be a manager one day. It might be 10 years, I don't know when.

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

I always wanted to be a teacher.

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I have my master's degree in secondary education. I actually interned at a high school and student-taught at a high school for a year.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

I believe there's not a harder job in the world than being a teacher, and there isn't a job with a more direct impact on the performance of our students.