"Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself."

“There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.”

“Where can we take no the product, but the idea?”

Source : "Three Quotes to Help Entrepreneurs When Things Get Tough" by Patricia G. Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.

“A defeatist spirit must inevitably lead to disaster.”

“My mother and dad played the fiddle and the guitar.”

Source : Interview with Arash Markazi, www.si.com. May 15, 2009.

“Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.”

“It's certainly a loss for us here at the University of Washington, because Jeff Compher has been a wonderful friend and administrator. Jeff is a football man first, but he has the compassion and desire to make all of Northern Illinois' programs successful. He's one heck of a guy.”

“There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.”

“I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.”