Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Coach Graham rode you pretty hard, didn't he?" he said. I could barely muster a "yeah." That's a good thing," the assistant told me. When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, it means they've given up on you.

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.