"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it."

"Let's face it...most relationships you have in life don't work out."

"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

"I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time."

"If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident."

"True role models don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up."

"Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future."

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive."

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

"She heard and mentally recorded people's words in the same way she copied words she read. Could she ever hear what a person did not say?"

"No great leader in history fought to prevent change."