You must have the dedication, determination and desire to be a friend, not a bully.

With the dedication, determination and relentless efforts of an ever increasing number of devotees and volunteers of all ages, this temple will become will soon become a focal point for Hindus in North Texas to congregate and practice their faith.

In a sense, the shoe has come to represent the dedication, determination and dream of all those who wanted, in the words of my brother, the hurting to stop.

Because most people are teased and taunted from a distance, and when they get to know a person it's like, OK, you're just like us -- but just a little shorter.

As I get into my speech, they start to see those things, and it starts to close the gap, and they see -- he really is no different than I am.

Looking back on it now, I don't see how we had the desire and the determination to keep going back because we kept getting knocked down, knocked down, knocked down,'' said Tony Glover, who joined the team late in 1983 and stayed until 1996.