I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

I try to show the children how every lesson I teach them is going to be something they use in their real life. That's why my kids work so hard, not because I'm so cool. They're working for themselves.

I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to do. You'll be given books and told chapters to assign the children. Veteran teachers will show you the correct way to fill out forms and have your classes line up.And here's some more good news. If you do all of these things badly, they let you keep doing it. You can go home at three o'clock every day. You get about three months off a year. Teaching is a great gig.However, if you care about what you're doing, it's one of the toughest jobs around.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.