Amateur Quote by Brian Blessed

When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted…

— Stephen Mangan

I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up front because…

— Kyle Walker

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

— Gavin Esler

I left school the day I turned 16, the earliest day I legally could. Determined to follow a life on stage, preferably with some…

— Celia Imrie

I was in college, but I got kicked out. It was a very free school, but I created a "bad impression." Like I was…

— Steve Winwood

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately…

— Philipp Meyer

I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study…

— Marie Curie

I dropped out of high school so I could attend another kind of school, an internship of champions. I dropped out to live my…

— Keith Thurman

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

— Carl Hart

When I was 14, I started playing for Taye Academy in the city of Owerri, and then my whole life became football. I dreamed…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

I left school with no qualifications, but I was doing theatre and film work and thought that was the best thing since sliced bread.

— Dexter Fletcher

I did a deal with my parents to take a year out before university at the end of 1992 to try and forge a…

— Christian Horner