“What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and… make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.”

Big guys like you and me aren’t allowed to whine.

I think for kids it’s the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

Always keep your composure. You can’t score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

White has always been an exclusive definition. I think one of the challenges for white people is to figure out how to have a more inclusive picture of who their families are, of who they are.

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day.

It’s a challenge that we also feel more than any other time because it’s in the news and social media. It’s in our families.

There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things – it almost becomes second nature to do so.

And I think the Russians are exacerbating this by making people displaced and killing families and that’s how you lead to radicalization.

The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie s with such Christian seriousness that they are willing to completely alter their lifestyle to raise up disciples for Jesus Christ.