Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.

I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

Look, many of us here are regular marines ... I will die as a marine because that is my dream.

I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.