“[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.” PeoplePolicyUnderachieving Author:Conrad Black
“We can't score goals, we can't stop goals, we aren't hitting, we can't play on special teams... we all stink. We can try to improve but to do so we will need to make trades. And who would want our players that are underachieving?” WantNeedsTryingPlayGoalPlayerTeamSpecialTradeScoreHockeyHittingNhlStinkSpecial TeamsUnderachieving Author:Ted Leonsis
“Don't you know alcohol kills brain cells...any damn brain cell that can't live through a good drunk deserves to die. You're doing yourself a favour, getting rid of all them nonhacking, underachieving ones. I'm working on improving your efficiency.” KnowsDiesBrainDeserveAlcoholDrunkCellsBeerDamnEfficiencyImprovingFavourBrain CellsUnderachieving Author:James E. Webb
“Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving."” FeelsFirstsAgeSongDealsRecordsFireHappeningsLabelsRecord LabelsYounger SisterUnderachieving Author:Jaden Smith
“All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.” Has BeensAchieveCoachesUnderachieving Author:Shane Warne
“I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.” PeopleWellsI CanUsedTurnsReturnRoundsVolleyUnderachieving Author:Andy Roddick
“Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.” BookStudentsCollegeCitizenshipPreparingPointingUnderachieving Author:George Leef
“In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology of today's illnesses and to recommend palliative treatments for what he has discovered.” TodaySocialStudyCollegeIllnessTreatmentStatisticsHealerSocial ScienceUnderachieving Author:Donald Kagan
“Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?” StarsUnderachievingOverachieving Author:Bret Bielema
“Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.” PeopleTryingMeanStillsSchoolRememberSuccessSuccessfulHappy LifeSuccess In LifeUnsuccessfulSuccessful LifeIllustratorsUnderachieving Author:Dav Pilkey