Quotes about Development

While we would love to have no criticism, probably if we had no critique, we wouldn't be doing anything meaningful.

My rookie year was huge for me as far as the learning curve, especially those last three games.

At Liverpool, I used to read the match day programme, and you'd read an interview with a lad from the youth team. They'd ask age, heroes, strong points, etc. He'd reply, 'Shooting and tackling.' I can't get into my head that football development would educate tackling as a quality, something to learn, to teach, a characteristic of your play.

Tactics have changed a lot, but the standard is getting better.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

God doesn't wait for you to reach maturity before he starts liking you. He loves and enjoys you at every stage of your spiritual development.

Solid, stable churches are not built in a day. When God wants to make a mushroom he takes six hours. When God wants to build an oak tree he takes sixty years. Do you want your church to be a mushroom or an oak tree?