Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.

Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

We talked about some of our experiences, focusing, hanging together down the stretch, important games. It's not necessarily who has the most talent but what team sticks together and executes their fundamentals the best.

Things will go wrong at times. You can't always control your attitude, approach, and response. You options are to complain or to look ahead and figure out how to make the situation better

It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

If you're a leader, people's lives should be better because of the influence you've had along the way.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.