DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

When I was young, I didn't like to read. I would have much rather been outside doing something than been inside reading about it.

Stubbornness is a virtue if you are right.

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.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.