Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.