He wants you to excel, ... Do well in the classroom as well as on the field.

In high school I did well academically and athletically, ... I never thought about not succeeding. Thankfully I have the God-given ability to do it.

We'll be laying plans for the Breeders' Cup [Juvenile Fillies], but we'll let her get over this first.

It's actually a disadvantage to us, ... When we miss a lecture, we don't know if we miss something that will be on a test.

Playing football gave me the option of having school paid for while doing something I love.

Checker players used to be upstairs (in the courthouse) especially in the winter, ... Ben Blackman used to walk five miles (from the Blackman community), play checkers and go back. I can't imagine that. He was at least 60 years old.

I can remember coming to Murfreesboro in the 1920s in a horse and buggy. Traffic was both ways in the square.

Work hard and apply yourself, ... If you go to class and apply yourself you'll do fine.

I was 10 or 11 years old and the youngest guy on the block. They didn't want me to play. (Westbrooks) said if I could get within six inches of the stob, he would let me play. I did just that.