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 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.

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.

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.

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.

You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.

The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.

personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble

A great nation cannot abandon its responsibilities. Responsibilities abandoned today return as more acute crises tomorrow.

A room is not a room without natural light.

In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.