Since I got into coaching, Coach Carroll's been nothing but great to me and always been willing to help and share some advice and give a perspective.

I'm not a player who needs telling every day in training 'you're brilliant, you're this, you're that'... but it's always nice to hear comments from the manager and people around that you're doing well.

Getting a compliment, even if you need a cooty shot afterwards, is still a compliment.

It's not annoying to get a compliment.

When I'm home, my friends are all coming home from work, their lives are a little more concrete.

My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

What's been happening in your life lately? What's the greatest challenge in your life right now? What's the most significant thing happening in your life right now? You sound like you're carrying a heavy load. Is there any way I can help? How can I pray for you?

If something comes toward you with grace and can pass through you and toward others with grace, you can trust it as the voice of God.

Organized religion is an accountability system that holds your feet to the fire long enough to know what the issues really are, who God might just be, and what your own limitations might also be.

So now we move toward the goal, the very purpose of human life, "another intensity…a deeper communion," as Eliot calls it, that which the container is meant to hold, support, and foster.

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.