The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.

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.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

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

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

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.