The hurt that troubled children create is never greater than the hurt they feel.

Everybody wants to be winners - you have to trust that God has a greater plan for this even when you can't see it.

Your teammates see you through the good and the bad. They see where your foundation lies.

Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

I'm extremely blessed with my teammates. They're such an encouragement in my life. I have people praying for me and I'm praying for them as well.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

it's like a squid in love with the sky.

Like anyone who has a relationship with Jesus knows, the coolest thing about it is that it's infinite how much you can learn and begin to understand. It's something that grabbed me.

I do not know what I regret. I sit with my pen, and cannot find an end to that sentence.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it's always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.

Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible.

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.

If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.

A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.

And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.