The reason I love teaching, it's like being a miner. I find all these undiscovered jewels and, with the right motivation, they're amazed at what they can do. I have to show them their capability.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

I want my students to love to read. Reading is not a subject. Reading is a foundation of life, an activity that people who are engaged with the world do all the time

It’s not the job of the teacher to save a child’s soul; it is the teacher’s job to provide an opportunity for the child to save his own soul.

I don't think we expect enough of students. They just need someone to show them the way.

Teach like your hair's on fire!

I want my kids to know that they're just as good and just as American as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or Dr. Martin Luther King. My worst fear is they will become ordinary.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.

I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

Your life may not have gone the way you planned it, but it will go the way it's supposed to.

Oh God, ” Jenna said, “will you shut up and kiss me before I change my mind?

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.

You win what you can win when you can win it, and keep pushing - all the time. And that's how this game is played. And I'll play it till I can't play it anymore.

According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about women is their eyes. And women say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars.

Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Intuition is what you know before you think.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.