"My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me."

“I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“When you stop learning you stop growing.”

Source : Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.29, David C Cook

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

“The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.”

“There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.”

“If I tell you that I have robbed a bank, prepare the correct reaction.”

Source : Padgett Powell (2012). “The Imperative Mood”, p.1, Profile Books

“Growing older is an opportunity for you to increase your value and competence as the neural connections in your hippocampus and throughout your brain increase, weaving into your brain and body the wisdom of a life well lived, which allows you to stop living out of fear of disappointing others and being imperfect. Ageless living is courageous living. It means being undistracted by the petty dramas of life because you have enough experience to know what’s not worth worrying about and what ought to be your priorities.”