“I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.”

We do not win championships with girls. We win with competitors.

Sit up straight, listen and participate.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them.

The greatest strength any human being an have is to recognize his or her own weaknesses. When you identify your weaknesses, you can begin to remedy them – or at least figure out how to work around them.

I just think they were just a team that really enjoyed the process and allowed our coaching staff to enjoy the process.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.

You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.

Discipline is the only sure way I know to convince people to believe in themselves

Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

I think you can challenge people, but you don’t want to break people down. But you’ve got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you’re OK but you could be better.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I?’ I’d have to gather myself.

He who hasn’t tasted bitter things hasn’t earned sweet things.

I have a hard time writing music when I’m on tour.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Not all wounds need healing, not all scars are ugly.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Like a fractured bone in the ribs, the heart can be painfully heavy sometimes.