Funniest sports Quote by Rocky Graziano

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

— Roger Moore

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

— Dinah Sheridan

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had…

— Constance Baker Motley

I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.

— Shannon Briggs

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

— George Carlin

I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .

— Loretta Young

I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was…

— Andrew Wyeth

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

— Bam Margera

In sixth grade, I went to a very good private school, and I did learn there. I learned how to read and write. If…

— John Waters

When I was 11, I spent eight months in the hospital with rheumatic fever and almost died.

— Rod Carew

During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by…

— Scott Stossel

I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients…

— Prunella Scales