A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

Once a player joins our team, our priority is to teach him, not worry about the player we didn't select.

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.

When things get difficult it can be easy to complain. How you respond makes all the difference

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

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.