It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

Desire and dedication are everything!

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me.

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best.

Your single not because you are not good enough for one, it's that you're too good for the wrong one.

However much we do to avoid them we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Things don't always happen the way we planned. As we learn to trust in God's plan, we will see that He has our best interests at heart.

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.

How many restaurants do we know across the world that customers visit once and once only?

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the mind, vital and body Until everything that we have and are Is a sea of gratitude.

Every experience is an opportunity to encounter the Divine.