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.

Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

There are respectful, considerate things that can be done in life that will be appreciated by the recipient, and only good things can result.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.