I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Everything you do is measured by stats and it is difficult to keep your identity as a person out of the game. It can swallow you whole if you let yourself be engulfed by your statistics.

It is natural for me to ignore autograph seekers, but God wants me to share my testimony card with them and be loving. That power and initiative comes from him.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by that, He is measuring us by our faith in Christ.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

You will build confidence by continuing to put yourself into new and innovative situations where you can learn new skills, grow your education, test your strengths, and improve your abilities.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Find your security, success, and peace in God. Then, and only then, can it never be taken from you.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.