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.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

Often think of the worst-case scenario, the "Eaten By Wolves" factor.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.