These guys were human too...
Einstein's mother introduced him to the violin at the age of six in an attempt to counteract his academic failures. "Because he spoke haltingly for the first nine years of his life and would only answer after a prolonged period of reflection, Einstein's parents thought he was mentally retarded. His grades in school were so poor that a teacher asked him to quit, saying, 'Einstein, you will never amount to anything. '"
In 1895 Einstein failed an examination that would have allowed him to study for a diploma as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich.
Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school.
Beethoven's music teacher once said of him "as a composer he is hopeless. "
When Thomas Edison was a boy his teacher told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
F. W. Woolworth got a job in a dry good store when he was 21, but his employer would not let him wait on customers because he "didn't have enough sense. "
Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team.
Winston Churchill failed the 6th grade.
Steven Spielberg dropped out of high school in his sophomore year. He was persuaded to come back and placed in a learning disabled class. He lasted a month and dropped out of school forever.
A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had no good ideas.
In the early 1920s Walt began a cartoon company in Kansas City, Missouri, with fellow artist Ub Iwerks, but the company soon went bankrupt.
Looks like there
is hope for some of us
Attention: TDR Forum Junkies 
I just wonder,boy I am taking a big step what Whitmores excuse is. Personally I think its all that gas he has sucked
