It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Believing that life interruptions—divine interruptions—are a privilege not only causes us to handle them differently but to await them eagerly.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS

In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

Some leaders are not intimidated by opposition; they actually thrive on it. It wakes them up. It energizes them. It calls them to battle. It causes them to mobilize their thoughts and energy.

Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.