If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.