It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

Talk about your blessings more than you talk about your burdens.

Don't be normal. Be an example.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

If you believe, sometimes unbelievable things are possible.

As a competitor and an athlete, you have to believe in yourself. And you have to believe in the people who believe in you.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

I want to make someone's life better because I'm here. If you have that attitude it will change your day and change your life.

There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.

Some of our friends put our enemies out of work.

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Death is not something you get over. It’s the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m going to lose.

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.