Going To College Quotes - Page 4

• Coming out of high school, I think it was good for me instead of going to college because college and the NBA are two different things. You can dominate on the college level, but the NBA is a whole different story. The dudes that do the best are the ones who work hard.

  Dwight Howard

  Hard Work, School, College

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. January 26, 2005.

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• I was a hotshot as a junior. When I was 18, I really got into fiddling around. I completely lost interest in golf, and I guess all I could think about was going to college, getting married and having babies.

  Hollis Stacy

  Baby, Golf, College

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• If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

  Tony Dungy

  Athlete, College, Skills

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• My boyfriends going to college so I made him tattoo my name on his foot so I know he's mine

  IU

  Tattoo, College, Feet

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  College, Thinking, Important

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• Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Couple, Husband

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.

  Michael Oher

  Football, Kids, College

  Michael Oher (2012). “I Beat The Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond”, p.148, Penguin

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• Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

  Sue Bird

  College, Race, Views

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• My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

  Garrett Atkins

  College, Decision, Parent

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• Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

  Michael N. Castle

  School, College, Historical

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• I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

  Wendy Williams

  College, People, Next

  Source: aalbc.com

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• It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.

  Jason Silva

  Depressing, College, Thinking

  Source: www.therobotsvoice.com

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