“I feel like a new person. I learned how to deal with people when I wasn't a football player. I always wondered how they'd react to me, if they'd respect me. I found out I have other attributes that I like-and that others like. The injury made me a lot more mature. I have a better grasp of reality in life. I'm more patient and giving. I'm a lot closer to my family and more team oriented. I'm so much stronger emotionally. I have proven to myself that I can overcome the most dreaded injury in football. It's almost like dying and realizing life has been given back to me. I can't wait to play.” PeopleIfsGivingFeelsPersonsHas BeensMadeI CanPlayRealityFoundGivenWaitingRealizingDealsPlayerTeamDyingFootballMy FamilyOvercomingStrongerPatientInjuryMatureAttributesProvenAmerican FootballFootball PlayerRespect Me Author:Keith Millard
“I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends.” IfsMadeEndsAcceptingImpossibleOvercomingContradictionImpossibility Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . . Then he that has overcome and is found worthy, will be made a king of kings, a lord of lords over his own posterity, or in other words: A father of fathers.” MadeEarthFoundFatherLordKingsOvercomingWorthyFinishedKingdomsPosterityExaltation Author:Brigham Young
“It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.” PersonsMadeRealRunningChristianWinningHeavenRaceEnemySacrificeArmsVictoryBattleCostConflictStandardsCrossesOvercomingConversionChairsWildernessEgyptForsaken Author:J. C. Ryle