You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.

Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

There's not too many times in life you control your own destiny and these kids can definitely compete for the state title.

One of the things we have no control over ? Destiny is one of them..

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

Three of the top four teams are completely in control of their own destiny,