God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.
Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.
Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.
Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.
Animal abuse is rampant in the U. S. , right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.
Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.
Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.
Now the [smartphone] has freed everybody, and so everybody gets better. No matter what you say, people will check you out on their phone.