We have a lot of distractions that come with homecoming week. Sylacauga got their first win the other night and they will likely be at their best. The question is whether or not we will be at our best.


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No one will remember us, out footprints erased, our legacies wiped out, our children and their child...
RICK YANCEY
I always feel trepidation at the beginning of every project. I worry about so many things. Time to g...
RICK YANCEY
Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.
PHILIP YANCEY
the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau...
PHILIP YANCEY
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Not...
PHILIP YANCEY
As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more me...
PHILIP YANCEY
Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."7-19 He lists hope at...
PHILIP YANCEY
As a Jewish rabbi put it, "A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, ...
PHILIP YANCEY
I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ...
PHILIP YANCEY
A moment comes in war when the last line must be crossed. The line that separates what you hold dear...
RICK YANCEY
Why the delay? Why does God let evil and pain so flagrantly exist, even thrive, on this planet?...He...
PHILIP YANCEY
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We hav...
RICK YANCEY
People die. Love endures.
RICK YANCEY
And I open to him, a flower to the rain.
RICK YANCEY
You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."

Best les...
RICK YANCEY
I want to learn from them. I want to do what I can to make a difference.
JANAY YANCEY
I think that will be amazing. It's always been a dream of mine to play big time volleyball.
JANAY YANCEY
I love the fact that they have a new coach. We just clicked automatically. (Coach Stubbs) was a frie...
JANAY YANCEY
It's great. I set a goal for myself and I reached it. Now I've got to set a new one and keep on goin...
JANAY YANCEY
I chose the school that I though would be best for me. There were a lot of different things between ...
JANAY YANCEY
But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin...
RICK YANCEY
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
RICK YANCEY
The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca...
RICK YANCEY
Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under...
RICK YANCEY
Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'...
RICK YANCEY
That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY
Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
PHILIP YANCEY
We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t...
WAYNE YANCEY
You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE
Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY
There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he...
RICK YANCEY
Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?
RICK YANCEY
She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc...
RICK YANCEY
If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
RICK YANCEY
We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We sa...
FRED HAMPTON
I would suggest maintaining a life and a career outside the Industry. This is a fickle business and ...
FRED SAVAGE
I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to hav...
FRED HAMPTON
Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and rout...
FRED WILSON
For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce...
FRED UPTON
One of the first shows I ever did was 'Laverne & Shirley.' I played this sleazy guy that...
FRED WILLARD
I can say I won a Senior British Open at Turnberry. I think that's the best thing about it, the ...
FRED COUPLES
Ethereum has taken what was a four-function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turn...
FRED EHRSAM
You really have to understand this isn't a business where you sit in the back room and do calcul...
FRED DELUCA
I'd love to have Burt Reynolds' career.
FRED WILLARD
I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on th...
FRED ARMISEN
I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, ...
FRED COUPLES
I always loved comedy growing up - Bob Hope, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye.
FRED WILLARD
I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
FRED WILLARD
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - a...
FRED FRIENDLY
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
FRED HOYLE
There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
FRED HOYLE
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
FRED HOYLE
I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one ...
FRED WILLARD