In America you're conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ's sake?

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?